The Side Effects of Greed

When one considers the effect that the sub prime lending mortgage crisis is having, one cannot help but be surprised as to how the unimportant issues have overridden the important ones, and how this has led to the downward spiral that the world economy is in today. What bothers me the most is the nature [...]

Game Theory and Kashmir

I was reading this illuminating article on a new perspective for Kashmir. Varali says that we should stop talking about it ourselves (if we are uninformed) and allow the Kashmiri voice to be heard. The issue really seems to be that there are multitudes of voices that drown out the ones that matter. Where can [...]

Google, Microsoft, Small World Networks and Futurology

Microsoft and Google’s business methods seem to use pioneering methods, or at least, best practices whose inner workings have been revealed by new found knowledge in the realm of small world networks, and network science. Network science is one of the hottest growing areas on the planet. It is the science of all the connections between various people, phenomena, processes, structures and pretty much any phenomenon whose states are determined by the interaction of multiple phenomena or influences.

Predicting Collective Financial Futures

It is probably impossible, even to hard core Asimov fans who believe that the science of psychohistory (as illustrated by Asimov) is possible. However,  is it possible to predict, based on a set of operating state variables, the systemic state of an organization?
Here’s a PhysOrg post about current research efforts into organizations, where, by measuring [...]

Do Opinions Reinforce Recessions?

I have been wondering about a possible coercion of economic trading at the stock markets due to an increase in the number of people saying that there will be a recession. In other words, I think it is possible that economic trading in national markets take downward trends sometimes just because people say that they [...]