Physics Perspective

Inspiration from physics for thinking about economics, finance and social systems

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Three cheers for John Cassidy

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Hurray for John Cassidy in being gutsy enough to write clearly about the Edward Snowden situation, as well as the broad and gutless medi...
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Friday, June 21, 2013

The War on Reality

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If you're at all disturbed (I am) by the various recent revelations over massive data trolling by government agencies, you should re...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Robots will take your job

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From MIT Tech Review, this article explores an important question: is technology putting people out of work? That simple answer is of c...
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Stupid myths of public versus private

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This interview of Mariana Mazzucato on the INET blog is hugely important. We're all influenced by some ideas floating around about how ...
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Sunday, June 9, 2013

Nanex: visualizing zillions of trades in a half-second

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By way of Naked Capitalism , I learned of the video below produced by Nanex, the market data analysis company in Chicago. It runs for just u...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The invisible hand made visible

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My latest Bloomberg column just appeared (or will around 6pm EST today). It takes a look at a landmark ...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

How to think about the future

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Nesta has just released a video (below) of the event I did in London a few weeks ago with Nate Silver and others. It's a short discussio...
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Mark Buchanan
Physicist and science writer. I was formerly an editor with the international science journal Nature and also the magazine New Scientist. I am the author of three earlier books, and have written extensively for publications including Nature, Science, the New York Times, Wired and the Harvard Business Review. I currently write monthly columns for Nature Physics and for Bloomberg Views.
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