A fascinating series of talks on Economic Complexity which took place at the Institute of New Economic Thinking Conference in Berlin earlier this year (I wish someone would invite me!).
Featuring some names which will be very familiar to regular MoneyScience users: Doyne Farmer, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Ricardo Hausmann and Mauro Gallegati.

Doyne Farmer, Professor at Santa Fe...

Via The Big Picture and KPBS:

Since 2008, Wall Street and Washington have fought against the tide of the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. What have they wrought? In a special four-hour investigation, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and the unprecedented and uneasy partnership between government leaders and titans of finance that affects the fortunes of millions of...

Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability, Bank of England, speaking at the breakout panel entitled "How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 14, 2012.

I couldn't have got the timing much better. Steve Keen recently joined the MoneyScience Advisory Panel and since then he has been embroiled in an interesting debate with Paul Krugman which has been reported, analysed and commented on just about anywhere you care to look in the blogosphere.
FT Alphaville explains that it all started when "Keen, who is a beneficiary of George Soros’ Institute for New Economic Thinking... published a summary of a paper.. which looks at why Hyman...

Via the Blog of the FOC Project, a European Science project aimed at understanding and forecasting systemic risk and global financial instabilities, comes this interview with Stefano Battiston, physicist at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
"We need a cockpit where policymakers can look to see early alerts of future financial crises", says Stefano, who might be familiar to MoneyScience users as one of the authors of a paper which made something of a splash last year: The network of global corporate...