Prof. Frederick Mishkin wrote a paper on Iceland’s financial stability, lauding Iceland’s financial system shortly before its collapse. In this short video (about 2 min., part of the upcoming documentary Inside Job) he explains why the paper does not mention that Mishkin was paid $ 124.000 to write the paper, and how the title changed from “Iceland’s financial stability” to “Iceland’s financial instability”. Definitely worth a look!
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Mishkin on Iceland
August 28, 2010A Collection of Mathematica Blogs & Websites
December 10, 2009I compiled a list of Mathematica Blogs and Websites which helped me a lot. Looking at other people’s code is a great way of learning about the possibilities of Mathematica.
- Wolfram Blog
- Wolfram’s Online Seminars
- Scientific Arts
- Scientific Arts’ WorkLife
- Mathematica Programming (A great 400 page introduction for programming with Mathematica.)
- Math Estate (Financial Data)
- Carl T. Bergstrom’s Homepage (I used Bergstrom’s package for drawing a two-dimensional simplex.)
- Essential Mathematica for Students of Science (Lots of tutorials!)
- Walking Randomly
- David Park’s Homepage (Add-Ons and Packages for visualization, graphics and style-sheets.)
- Lunchtime Playground
- Wildebeests
- Gianluca Gorni (The CurvesGraphics package for placing arrows along curves and creating nice phase diagrams; and a another package for creating Poincare maps.)
- IMTEK Mathematica Supplement
- Mathematica Gems
- Paul Nylander’s Homepage (Mathematical Arts)
- Patrick Collison
- Verbeia.com (They have a nice section on Mathematica and Economics.)
Research and Teaching Online
February 13, 2008Notes to myself:
How can we use the internet for teaching and research? Here are some thoughts on this.
1) Share your work with others, i.e. put your papers online so that others who might be interested can find them.
2) Post not just lecture notes but also your complete lectures (audio+video) online. I’ll try how this works next semester.
3) Use podcasts and videos to hear what others are saying, for example:
Duncan K. Foley, Distinguished Guest Lecture, HES 2008
Stephen Marglin on the Future of Capitalism
Robert Frank on his new book (youtube video)
Interview with Stuart Kauffman (video)
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey
Lance Taylor: Can poor peoples’ income grow? (youtube video)
