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Magic, maths and money: June 2014
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Friday, 27 June 2014. Academic metrics and market mechanisms: heaven or hell. This post is a draft of my contribution to the ' Independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment. Being undertaken by the Higher Education Funding Council of England and Wales (I will think about it over the weekend). As a mathematician I felt my views were covered in the submission made by Prof David Speigelhalter. My concerns with Prof Fuller’s approach begin with this comment. As a financial mathematician wh...
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Magic, maths and money: March 2014
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Monday, 31 March 2014. Why do we take physicists seriously? I have recently had a couple of lunches with Paolo Quattrone. A finance professor, and Michael Northcott. A theologian. The focus of our conversations. A trilogy I strongly recommend - it covers some of the same themes as this blog but with more pirates and sex, what more could you want? Where Stephenson describes Isaac Newton writing down, accounting for, his sins one night. When I first read this section it passed me by, but Paolo has enli...
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Course Readings and Videos and Audios. Books for Hunters of the Invisible. Creativity and Collective Motivations. Course Readings and Videos and Audios. Books for Hunters of the Invisible. Creativity and Collective Motivations. My research is on Axiological Epistemology. It covers two practical problems: (1) How to create collective motivations to entice organization members to work in full service, communication and investigative attitude. I am on leave. Web in Catalan, Spanish and a bit in English ).
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Magic, maths and money: Reciprocity and the difference between usury and interest
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Friday, 13 June 2014. Reciprocity and the difference between usury and interest. At the IASH meeting on the Human-Business interface. I attended last week, Michael Northcott discussed the relationship between capitalism and sustainability. Michael is an authority on both subjects, having written on environmental ethics. At the end of Michael's presentation I made the point that theologians distinguished interest ad usury in the past, a distinction that was missing in Michael's discussion. Because money i...