Parade's End

The BBC's transmission of Ford Maddox Ford's Parade's End (a co-production with HBO, and adapted by Tom Stoppard who has a good...

Markets, Morality and Mathematics

One of the key critics of Aquinas’ argument that a merchant could charge what heliked, providing the future was uncertain , w...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and why we can't solve the Euro crisis

I, like a lot of technically minded-people it seems, like a good crime thriller.  Having spent a year mesmerised by Sara Lund's sweaters...

Does finance need a scientific revolution or science need a revolution inspired by finance

Nature , the British version of Science , rarely makes forays into exploring issues in finance. They invited me to talk at a meeting i...