Why a mathematician will be talking to a theologian

As part of the Edinburgh Fringe's Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas I will be interviewed by a theologian.  My wife was a bit perplexed by th...

Why are there so few financial activists?

It has been an enduring enigma to me as to why there is so little public activism around finance, given that there is activism in domains ...

What doux-commerce means to me

A recent paper in economics highlights why I think the classical operation of financial markets can inform science, and also how modern ‘sc...

Who are the true champions of science?

The Guardian’s Political Science blog is providing rich pickings while I am preparing to argue that the recent financial crises exposes a d...

Probability and the Precautionary Principle: Could Science Learn from Finance

Has science any hope of predicting the future in a meaningful way?  While I was on holiday The Guardian published a series of articles discu...

Moralised Markets

This is an extract from a draft paper A Context for Financial Economics: Ethics in the Face of Uncertainty  I have placed on SSRN.  It form...