As Isaac Newton said upon losing most of his fortune in the collapse of the South sea bubble in 1721, “I can calculate the motions of the planets, but not the madness of the people..”- Is it really impossible to explain the laws of economics in terms of mathematical laws…

The year 2008 was not only one of history’s biggest financial earthquakes, but also showed the failure of economists to predict the credit crunch, even when the financial forecasts were based on sophisticated mathematical models. The crisis had a number of phases, but the pivotal event was the collapse of…

I have been thinking about this one theory for a while. It’s an abstraction born out of questions like who am I? How do I define myself? What’s my identity? How do my relationships in life affect my identity? This theory comes from the idea of how we can never…

History helps us understand people and societies. But what if we’ve been understanding it wrong? How much of the human history is true? Are the laws and theories derived from history just based on false recollections? …