Insincerity in climate science

This post is concerned with the idea that truth does not exist and the best science can do is be honest.  The argument emerged because I rea...

Oedipus and the difficult relationship between maths and economics

Noah Smith recently wrote a “rant” on maths in (macro)economics, which elicited a swift response from Paul Krugman , which in turn prompted...

Faith, Hope and Charity in the genesis of actuarial science

Before the crisis caused by the South Sea Company, Daniel Defoe had written in 1719 that he “hoped that mathematicians might cure the reckle...

Lady Credit

Economics is can be seen as being primarily concerned with managing resources when faced with scarcity; the maximisation of expected utility...