ECONOMICS

LINKS TO ORGANIZATIONS

Edge - online discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues

Real Clear Politics - online news summaries

Nassim Taleb website - articles and blog

ARTICLES

A Short History of Modern Finance, The Economist, Oct 16, 2008

Infectious Exuberance, Robert J. Schiller, Atlantic Monthly July/August 2008

Shattering the Bell Curve, David A. Shaywitz, WSJ Tuesday, April 24, 2007

The Remedist, Robert Skidelsky, NYT, December 12, 2008

Dollar Shift: Chinese Pockets Filled as Americans’ Emptied, NYT, Dec. 25, 2008 Accompanying graphs

Risk Management, Joe Nocera, NYT, Jan 2 2009

How the Finance Gurus Get Risk All Wrong Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb,Fortune, July 11, 2005

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House Publishing, April 2007 WEBSITE

Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis? By Mike Brown, Stuart Kauffman, Zoe-Vonna Palmrose and Lee Smolin, EDGE

The Engine of Mayhem Robert Samuelson, Real Clear Politics, October 13, 2008

The Panic of 2007 Gary Gorton, National Bureau of Economic Research , Working Paper

Alan Greenspan Testimony on Sources of Financial Crisis, before the House Committee of Government Oversight and Reform, Oct 23, 2008

Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation, NYT, October 23, 2008