Academic metrics and market mechanisms: heaven or hell

This post is a draft of my contribution to the ' Independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment ' being undertaken...

Rethinking the finance curriculum

Emerging in the wake of the Rethinking Economics movement is Rethinking Finance , and it looks as if Rethinking Finance is going to place s...

Reciprocity and the difference between usury and interest

At the IASH meeting on the Human-Business interface I attended last week, Michael Northcott discussed the relationship between capitalism a...

Fairy dust sprinkled from ivory towers

On the basis that the "impact agenda" is important I thought it worth while responding to Paul Krugman, who seems to  think I'...

Dogmatic Indifference

Last week Roger Pielke Jr had a letter to the FT published where he questioned the effectiveness of a carbon cap in China.  Paul Krugman re...