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Lo and Behold
Charles Goodhart
Is macro-economics in need of a blood transfusion from evolutionary theories in biology? Charles Goodhart reviews Andrew Lo’s Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought.
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The Smart Set
Ludwig Huber
Ludwig Huber, a cognitive biologist and professor at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, reviews Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal.
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Godzooks
David Berlinski
David Berlinski reviews Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. To the question of whether human beings are shortly to become like gods, Berlinski answers not any time soon.
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Behavior
David Lahti
David Lahti reviews a recent book on how and to what extent genes determine behavior by philosopher of science Kenneth Schaffner: Behaving–What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?
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Great Scott
George Scialabba
James C. Scott’s Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States explores the mixed blessings of agriculture and animal domestication. George Scialabba casts a critical eye over Scott’s book.
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To Be, Not To Be, Maybe
Tim Maudlin
Philosopher of science Tim Maudlin reviews a recent book on quantum theory and its implications for philosophy: Quantum Ontology: A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics by Peter J. Lewis.
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Equal by Catastrophe
Victor Davis Hanson
Is economic equality all it’s cracked up to be? Victor Davis Hanson reviews Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
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Recollections of Some Notable Texts
Jeremy Bernstein
A recent collection of Freeman Dyson’s lectures, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, is reviewed by Jeremy Bernstein, alongside other published lectures by Julian Schwinger and Steven Weinberg.
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Odd Man Out
Andrew Jordan
A review of Roger Penrose’s Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy by physicist Andrew Jordan. An ironic tension: Penrose attacks contemporary physics as fanciful; his own proposals are just as farfetched.
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