That's right, my new book, the cover of which you've seen off to the right of this blog for some time now, will FINALLY be in bookst...
Quantum Computing, Finally!! (or maybe not)
Today's New York Times has an article hailing the arrival of superfast practical quantum computers (weird thing pictured above), courte...
Third (and final) excerpt...
The third (and, you'll all be pleased to hear, final!) excerpt of my book was published in Bloomberg today. The title is "Toward a...
Second excerpt...
A second excerpt of my forthcoming book Forecast is now online at Bloomberg. It's a greatly condensed text assembled from various parts...
New territory for game theory...
This new paper in PLoS looks fascinating. I haven't had time yet to study it in detail, but it appears to make an important demonstrati...
Book excerpt...
Bloomberg is publishing a series of excerpts from my forthcoming book, Forecast, which is now due out in only a few days. The first one was...
Secrets of Cyprus...
Just something to think about when scratching your head over the astonishing developments in Cyprus, which seem to be more or less intention...
Beginning of the end for big banks?
If the biggest banks are too big to fail, too connected to fail , too important to prosecute , and also too complex to manage , it would see...
Megabanks: too complex to manage
Having come across Chris Arnade, I'm currently reading everything I can find by him. On this blog I've touched on the matter of fina...
Strategic recklessness
Some poignant (and infuriating) insight from Chris Arnade on Why it's smart to be reckless on Wall St. : ... asymmetry in pay (money for...
Networks in finance
Just over a week ago, the journal Nature Physics published an unusual issue. In addition to the standard papers on technical physics topics...
The intellectual equivalent of crack cocaine
That's what the British historian Geoffrey Elton once called Post-Modernist Philosophy, i.e. that branch of modern philosophy/literary...
Obscurity and simplicity
The British economist John Kay is one of my favorite sources of balanced and deeply insightful commentary on an extraordinary number of topi...
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