Physics Perspective

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

Monday, March 30, 2015

Common core and common rancor

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My most recent thing in Bloomberg touches on the Common Core standards for learning. It's amazing how some things that ought to be pret...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

Macroeconomics: "not remotely scientific"

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Excellent post by Noah Smith examining the question of why so many people who aren't trained economists like to weigh in with views o...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Presuppositions and idealizations...

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Lars Syll quotes an interesting passage from Hans Albert on the weird use of theoretical abstraction in economics; "weird" as ...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Yeah for Mark Thoma!

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How many economists go out of their way to examine in public what they got wrong in their past views, and what they learned by making such m...
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Friday, November 28, 2014

Has big business "captured" the economics profession?

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The idea of regulatory capture is a good one, and it’s the principal explanation that academic economists offer for why regulators...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Slow steaming is still dreaming -- a response to Paul Krugman

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I've just published a response to Paul Krugman's criticism of my recent Bloomberg article on limits to growth. It's over at ...
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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Economic numerology

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A few days ago, Paul Krugman made reference in one of his columns to some data compiled by the US Energy Information Administration on ...
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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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