Economics

You don’t have to be entirely pessimistic about the future of wealth inequality.

In America, people who lose jobs don’t necessarily get them back.

What finance will look like when it is controlled by machines.

The case for making money local again.

Why cryptocurrency will always be political.

While researching my soon-to-be-released biography on John Horton Conway, an iconoclastic and very influential mathematician at Princeton, I organized a research trip to his native England. We visited with Conway’s elder sister, Joan, in Liverpool, and convened a reunion at his alma mater, Cambridge. We met there with a few of his “sum chums,” his co-authors […]

The debate about what caused the 2010 stock market Flash Crash is missing the point.

The insight that will save you from being manipulated.

r.classen via Shutterstock In the 1630s, Holland was gripped by the world’s only known case of “tulip mania.” The intensely colored flowers were already a luxury item before then, but their prices leaped when tulips with flame patterned petals hit the market, and they continued rocketing to previously incomprehensible levels. The price for a single […]

A Cambridge economist discusses wealth, health, and disaster.