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The Bezzle Years
This essay was originally written for Project Syndicate in 2015. If anything, it is more relevant now.
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Mission Economy by Mariana Mazzucato — could moonshot thinking help fix the planet?
Ever since 1969, people have asked themselves why if humans can land on the moon, can’t they solve pressing problems here on...
Greed is Dead LSE Discussion
John and Paul recently discussed their latest book, Greed is Dead, with Camilla Cavendish at an LSE virtual event moderated by Andrés...
A lifetime in investment trusts
At the annual general meeting of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust on June 16, I retired as the senior independent director after a...
Discrimination in University Admissions
The use of algorithms to award examination grades has led to chaos. Readers of the chapter on Probability and the Law in...
Michael Gove, John von Neumann, and the Reverend Thomas Bayes
Michael Gove’s thoughtful, even inspiring, Ditchley lecture confirmed his reputation as an unusually intellectual exception to the uninspiring norm of our politicians....
The Meaning of R
Rarely has a parameter in a model attracted so much attention as the number R - the reproduction rate of covid-19 infection....
The Two Envelope Problem
You are offered the choice of two envelopes and are told that one contains twice as much money as the other. You make...
