Why some physicists shouldn't do finance

In January 2011 the most prestigious British science journal, Nature, published a paper, Systemic risk in banking ecosystems , co-authored b...

Magic, markets and models of science

There is a well developed theory that a key impetus for the development of European science in the seventeenth century  was magical thinking...

Science, politics, mathematics and finance

I went "offline" over the Christmas break and so missed the fallout of Brian Cox and Robin Ince's article in the New Statesman...