I attended the second “Ethics in Mathematics” conference held at the University of Cambridge and organised by Maurice Chiodo. I had come across Maurice about twelve months...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

I was invited by the “London Markets Actuarial Group”, made up of general insurance actuaries, to speak at an ethics workshop. This post is about some observations I have ...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

This post follows discussions of the norms sincerity, reciprocity and charity in financial markets. It suggests that the success of Quaker finance, that funded the B...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

At some point over the Christmas break I was cursing the fact that I was finding  it difficult to find a weather map.  That is a weather map with isobars and fronts ...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

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Jun 01 2019 10:00

Noah Smith has posed a question that resulted in a tweet thread Question for historians: Has anyone written of a unique, deep-rooted enmity between Europeans and Middle Easter...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

My previous post was born out of my frustration that some feel that there is a 'clash of cultures' that will inevitably lead to conflict between east and west/Islam and Christ...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

My book, Ethics in Quantitative Finance, was motivated by the wish to understand the relationship between mathematics and financial ethics in the aftermath of the Credit Crisi...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } There are three types of mathematician: those who can count and those who can't.It takes a few seconds to get this joke the fi...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

The Bank of England is seeking to build an 'Open Forum' Building real markets for the good of the people. I am participating in this forum and here I seek to address the ques...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

I recently attended the Alan Turing Institute summit on Data Analytics for Credit Risk and left wondering if statistics is well placed to address the problems of big data...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

Reciprocity is a norm, a rule embedded in financial mathematics, which permits high rates of interest to poorer, higher risk, borrowers. This means that phenomena such as debt...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

I have been interested for a few years in the idea that Antonio, the eponymous Merchant of Venice, is the personification of agape, Christian love, in Shakespeare's play. &nbs...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

The Vietnamese have a proverb: two women and a duck make a market. This simple saying highlights the inter-subjective nature of markets, there is an asset (the duck) who’s p...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

I was critical of Doyne Farmer in my previous post, and in response I got a message from someone I respectBut I like Farmer's work... solar costs follow Moore's law; and we sh...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

This piece has been posted on the Res Publica think tank Disraeli Room blog.I recently asked a prominent mathematician who once ran a hedge fund, Doyne Farmer, whether se...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

Finance is a skeleton that supports the development of a healthy society, not a utility that plumbs the economy together. The justification for this observation is historical....

Jun 01 2019 10:00

I was aware of the "mathiness" discussion initiated by the macro-economist Paul Romer, but have only recently read the articles because while the discussion was taking place I...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

This is a draft of an article that has been accepted by The Mathematical Intelligencer and offers an argument very similar to Romer's 'mathiness' argument as discuss...

Jun 01 2019 10:00

As the father of a four year old daughter, I have been to the cinema to see the the Disney film, Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy.  When I took my daughter to the cinema I...

Jun 01 2019 10:00