I’ve written before about how economies can be thought of as network-based supercomputers that physically rearrange atoms — what some academics mean by the term “information” — to generate value. As I ...

The role of physicists in finance is changing, as quantitative trading opens an exciting alternative to traditional financial modelling, and data science lures would-be 'quants' away. But the void is ...

Eric Beinhocker is the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. W. Brian Arthur is External Professor at Santa Fe Institute.

When Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in Economics last October, many of her colleagues rejoiced. The prestigious award endows the Harvard University academic with an aura of respectability that few ...