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On Norton’s No-Go Result
G. Barış Bağcı
reply by John Norton
[short_description] Physicists in particular should pay close attention: John Norton’s no-go result refers to a process that Rolf Landauer took for granted in his formulation of the thermodynamics of computation.
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On Louis Bachelier
Jeremy Bernstein
[short_description] Since Louis Bachelier’s only lasting contribution to mathematics seems to have been his thesis, it is not clear what one would say in a full-length biography. It is a curious and rather sad story...
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Building Bad
James Stevens Curl
reply by Nikos Salingaros
[short_description] For most of his life, James Stevens Curl has studied what he calls “the ruination of towns and cities” through the effects of a global and celebrity-driven cult of modernist architecture.
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Misunderstanding a Crisis
Richard Wagner
reply by Henri Lepage
[short_description] Modern macroeconomic theory has few answers to offer its practitioners. Its theories focus on aggregate spending when they should instead focus on the plans of economizing agents.
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More Views from Below
Yves Montenay
reply by Henri Lepage
[short_description] An economist in the micro sense of the term, Yves Montenay pulls from his experience working in commercial industry and offers his own ideas to the debate on data methodology and measurement.
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Money for an Open Global Economy
Jean-Pierre Chamoux
reply by Henri Lepage
[short_description] Statistical data about the American economy have been compiled since the late 1800s. The same cannot be said of European economies, where GDP has only been reliably calculated since the 1930s.
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The Philosopher and the Practitioner
Bruno Tertrais
reply by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
[short_description] A political scientist warns against an exceedingly theoretical, partly obsolete, overly pessimistic, and ultimately incomplete view of nuclear deterrence and the risks associated with nuclear weapons.
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The Route to Nuclear War
David Omand
reply by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
[short_description] Between nuclear powers, no-first-use declarations are built on sand. Even if a declaration is signed in good faith during peacetime, no aggressor can count on it being maintained in the stress of war.
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The Irrelevance of Deterrence
M. V. Ramana
reply by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
[short_description] Nuclear deterrence is indeed a key part of many nuclear discussions, but it is merely theoretical and seems to have little utility for the people responsible for managing nuclear arsenals.
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