Complex models were at the root of the global financial crisis in 2008. Now, they have delayed action on tackling a global pandemic.
Nat Dyer Posts
A review of Iain McGilchrist’s documentary The Divided Brain published in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine
A profile of Bristol-based woodcut artist Rosanna Morris originally published in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine
When Robert Merton and Myron Scholes won the Nobel Prize in Economics, they had no idea that less than a year later the hedge fund they had helped create would collapse and have to be bailed out to the tune of $3.6 billion.
Why George Orwell makes me feel less of a fool for questioning how Charles Darwin’s ideas twist our politics and economics
The 8th way to think like a 21st-century economist is to “recognise our evolution: from ruthless competition to a new relationship with nature”
A film about the connecting tissues of life: ‘Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution’
London School of Economics professor, Susan Strange, who died in 1998 and recognised the growing systemic risks which led to the 2008 global financial crisis decades before most economists, is experiencing a revival of interest. But what are her big ideas?