Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Market complexity also makes for instability

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Since the financial crisis of 2008, an explosion of research has aimed to understand what makes financial markets prone to sporadic crise...
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Sunday, July 10, 2016

The (un)Wisdom of Crowds

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Does the Wisdom of Crowds work for elections? Should we think that the result of the British Brexit vote, because it was a free vote put to ...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Improve technology -- and still use more stuff overall??

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A while back I had a brief argument with Paul Krugman and some other economists over economic growth and the future of the planet. It'...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Economic growth -- vastly slower than we thought (maybe)

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You'd think that by now we'd have a pretty good empirical understanding of how economies grow, i.e. what the normal pattern of...
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Monday, February 1, 2016

Shifting view

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Hey, I've changed the title of this blog! Why? Because I'm going to shift its perspective a little. As all of you will know, I'...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Warfare isn't getting less likely -- conclusions from a new analysis

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Is warfare getting less likely? Are we entering a new and more peaceful era of history? Quite a few people -- Steven Pinker and Niall Fe...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

To save the world -- give up on nature?

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Here's a radical idea -- we can best safeguard the future of humanity not by learning to live with nature, but by turning our backs o...
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