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Comments closedWhat follows are some remarks I intend to make on Friday Oct 21 2011 at a panel on global risk organized by GARP and the Federal…
Comments closedThe sun?s gravity pulls at all parts of the planet, and the bits of earth closer to the sun get pulled harder than the bits…
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Comments closed1. In this country politicians use polls to try to figure out what people want, and then offer it to them in order to get…
Comments closedI went to the NY Film Festival for the first time in years last night and saw
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Comments closedHaving been a scientist, one of my major pet peeves is the na?ve use of science. Let me give you several examples. The influential biologist…
Comments closedOn my way to New York from South Africa in the Sixties, I stopped in Israel. It was midsummer, and in Ramat Gan where I…
Comments closedFor a couple of years now I?ve had a bad feeling about the field of finance. Though I often inveighed against the mechanical use of…
Comments closedIf God had only had a committee of business writers to help him, I think he could have done a better job: Single AuthorThe Committee…
Comments closedI grew up in a post-WWII world where, temporarily, because of their capacity to create devices that wreak destruction, physicists had lots of influence in…
Comments closedCapitalism depends on lending and borrowing, and hence on banks. In that sense banks are a utility, like
Comments closedThe internecine arguments by economists in the daily papers show that a good part of economics is about what is good; and how to achieve…
Comments closedTheories deal with the world on its own terms, absolutely. Models are metaphors, relative descriptions of the object of their attention that compare it to…
Comments closedThe big quant boom began in the mid-?80s, when investment firms started attracting venerable names like Emanuel Derman, a South African-born physicist described by Patterson…
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