I've been on a bit of a data visualisation trip since talking to Liam Delaney about it a few days […]

Liam Delaney has some interesting thoughts on this post I wrote earlier on this week. One of Liam's points concerns […]

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Donal Palcic, who passed his viva yesterday. Congratulations to my Charlie Larkin, who also […]

How cool is this? Click on the thumbnail below to see all the words used on the site in the […]

Complexity and obscurity have professional value—they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the […]

Image via Wikipedia Why don't students go to class anymore? This is a constant refrain in faculty lounges around the […]

Image via Wikipedia Duncan Foley, who taught me advanced microeconomics and mathematics, and in my opinion the best economic educator […]

Algorithmic Game Theory is the name given to a subfield where computer science and game theory overlap. The idea is […]

Image via Wikipedia From the press blurb: Sir Clive Granger, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Economics, will be visiting CIDS […]

Thanks to recent developments in Quantum Physics, I can in simultaneously have and eat a superposition of my cake. Only […]

Image via Wikipedia The 19th Hebrew University summer school in economics has videos of all of its presenters, amongst whom […]

Information and Learning in Markets represents the culmination of fifteen years of Xavier Vives' work in applying Bayesian ideas to […]

Notes for Kendrick, Mercado and Amman's 2006 Princeton University Press book: Computational Economics (Code for the programs in this book […]

Here are Mathematica notes, slides, and code for a course I taught at NUI, Galway in 2006. I recall it […]

Some thoughts on using Wolfram's typesetting software, Publicon. Publicon is a pimped version of Mathematica's front end, a graphical interface […]