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...

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...