Econoclast column for World Finance
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March 2012
Male crisis
Is the world of finance too male?
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February 2012
Vilfredo Pareto and the Occupy movement
Circulation of the elite is a natural feature of the system
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January 2012
Paying for parking
Money that pays negative interest ... just what the world needs?
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December 2012
Truth and beauty
Do we need another Newton to come along with an aesthetically pleasing formula to explain the economy? Or do we just need a different aesthetics?
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November 2011
Where's the puck?
We can blame the butterfly effect, but the truth is we're just very bad at predicting the future
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September 2011
Irrational economic man
The end of a reign
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July 2011
Power to the people
Why the economy follows a power law.
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May 2011
On fish and finance
What financial regulators can learn from fisheries management.
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March 2011
The Mecca of the Economist Lies In Economic Biology ...
... said the neoclassical economist Alfred Marshall in the preface to his Principles of Economics.
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January 2011
Fractal finance
Can the infinite complexity of the financial markets be described by the simple rules of mathematicians?
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November 2010
The happy science
On the relationship between happiness and economic growth.
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September 2010
Being objective
Risk assessors will always have to supplement mathematical formulae with tried and tested methods.
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July 2010
Why risk models don't work
As economists reconsider perceptions of risk management, there are many models to discard.
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May 2010
The age of the atom
Introducing modularity will mitigate risk in the credit markets.
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March 2010
The economies of fiction
Investigating the various fables inherent in contemporary economics.