The World Complex
Interweaving threads from science, politics, economics, and history.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
The tipping point of 2008
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As before , I have compiled this graph from official figures released by BLS and the US Fed . Scatterplot of unemployment rate vs re...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Is war really the health of the State?
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I've just started looking at this paper (link corrected) by Turchin et al. (2013) (model results here ). The basic premise is that th...
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Why do Ma and Pa play in a rigged market?
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“ They have been able to pay off politicians with political campaign funds and have been granted informal and unspoken yet complete immuni...
Friday, September 20, 2013
What's in a bubble?
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Bubbles are on a lot of minds lately. Bonds. Housing. Stocks. Are any of these in a bubble? How do we decide? A bubble is usually defined a...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Dissection of the Malian crisis
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An detailed summary of the crisis in Mali from inception to the present has been recently released by the Institute for the Study of Islami...
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