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- resilienceSci: Impact of 2008 crisis on inequality across OECD: Income inequality rose but taxes & transfers mitigated impact http://t.co/RQBOEurjQT May 22, 2013
Tag Archives: finance
Willful ignorance and the financial crisis – part 2
Gretchen Morgenson writes on the roots of the collapse of Merrill Lynch in How the Thundering Herd Faltered and Fell as part of a New York Times series on the financial crisis: “In 1997 and 1998, when we invented super … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged Citibank, finance, financial crisis, Gretchen Morgenson, Merrill Lynch, willful ignorance
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Ecology for bankers
In Feb 21 2008 Nature, ecologists Robert May, Simon Levin, and George Sugihara write about how ecological thinking can be used to illuminate financial dynamics in their commentary Complex systems: Ecology for bankers: ‘Tipping points’, ‘thresholds and breakpoints’, ‘regime shifts’ … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Networks, Regime Shifts
Tagged finance, George Sugihara, Networks, resilience, Robert May, Simon Levin
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Taleb on the failures of financial economics
Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes in Financial Times that because financial economics focus on normal and marginal behaviour at the expense of shocks and market reorganizations it is a pseudo-science hurting markets: I was a trader and risk manager for almost … Continue reading
Posted in Reorganization, Vulnerability
Tagged black swan, economics, finance, portfolio, risk, shocks, taleb
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