Book Reviews
Making Sense of Chaos by J. Doyne Farmer (Penguin Books)
As any student will tell you, no doubt armed with ChatGPT, economics is defined as “The study of the allocation of scarce resources”. But a more difficult question is this: what is economics for? To its critics, much of academic economics appears to exist…
How to get in early and work with AI before it transforms our world.
My review of Ethan Mollick’s book.
Could a forgotten management theory from the 1970s solve today’s economic malaise?
A review of the book by Dan Davies.
Felix Salmon recasts the Covid pandemic as an economic drama of risk preferences and micro-interactions.
Is there another book left to be written about AI?
The second of a two-part series.
How do recent books help us understand the boom in artificial intelligence, and what is left to be written?
Were prosecutions of bankers for LIBOR rigging an injustice?
This is the argument of a new book, reviewed by Rob Carver.
Open source prediction networks offer cheap AI forecasting outside the control of tech giants.
But lack of infrastructure means the vision has yet to be realized, writes Rob Carver.
Dozens of books have already been published on the pandemic, and many are already out of date.
To appreciate Covid, it’s best to step back and read this account of viruses published four years ago.
The experience of a doctor who fought pandemics a century and a half ago provides some hope for today.
How Japan is changing, in two charts
Playing MSCI’s quarterly rebalances
How the S&P 500 moved into hyperspace
Giving the EBA stress tests a stress test
Crime, business and benchmark rigging