Teaching kids to gamble

I do a workshop of couple of hours each summer with kids who have finished their Standard Grades (GCSEs in England, i.e they are 16) and ar...

Is "Risk Intelligence" a dangerous concept?

At a time when there is an emphasis on inter disciplinary research, it is not that useful to divide science into separate categories.  Ho...

A banker, a pharmacist and physicist walk into a pub .... and pay $3 billion

One of my favourite jokes:  "I make all the big decisions at home - what our policy on Iran, Chinese exchange rates and the Eurozone cr...

Financial crises, ethics and academics: A bit more Mea Culpa would help

Joris Luyendijk, the anthropologist who interviews finance professionals for The Guardian has recently published an interview with an Londo...

On the Shoulders of Merchants: Gresham, Stevin and science

When the short lived Edward VI became king of England in 1547, the nation’s wealth was based on the export of one commodity, wool, out of...

The IMA Conference on Mathematics in Finance

Since John Maynard Keynes rescued a collection of Newton's private papers and declared that "Newton was not the first of the age...

Creation myths

There is currently a debate being carried out on the internet between Steve Keen   and Paul Krugman on the nature of money. For those (like...