"Mathematics was not just about keeping track of were the moon was going, but also where the money was going."

"There is something intrinsically upside down and counter-intuitive in the relationship between money and happiness."

"A society in which each person is hell bent on maximizing his or her own utility, may therefore have declining overal…"

"If the aim of economics is really to provide the greatest happiness to the most people, than it is rather shocking to…"

"For even money itself has no value if there is no network of people to recognize it."

"Money, having freed itself from the physical universe, has become number itself, and finance a strange form of mathem…"

"The race to the moon was never really about the moon - its utility didn't rest in samples of moon rock. It was about …"

"Perfect order is boring, perfect randomness is boring, but complex systems are interesting."

"Adam Smith's invisible hand does exist, but as an emergent property of a complex system. It has a fuzzy tendency to r…"

"Advanced technology is great at tasks such as keeping an airliner flying several thousand feet in the air, but is eas…"