My email and facebook feed is filled with pictures and videos of exponential growth functions.   The flood originates, I believe, in epidemiological hubris, namely that:   1. The form of equation governing ...

A pro-screening friend posed this question — in response to my strong objections to mass screening. To which I replied: “It depends on the purpose, costs and the consequences. Testing witches by tying ...

Comparisons of coronavirus infections to the mundane seasonal ‘flu have invited widespread mockery. In fact, the comparison is oddly and usefully apt. Estimates of infection and death rates –for both – require ...

Brilliant observation from Knight’s Risk Uncertainty and Profit: “We live in a world full of contradiction and paradox, a fact of which perhaps the most fundamental illustration is this: that the ...

The compositor has sent  the “final” version of Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help (though the official publication in Applied Economics wont be till July or ...