Are people lucky or skilled? This question is important to consider in any performance-related field. A lot of what we attribute to skill is often simply luck in disguise. This...

Fooled By Randomness In his 2001 book, Fooled By Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb deploys the concept of “alternative histories,” the things that could have happened as a result of chance...

The recent passage of the Republican tax plan has prompted the traditional phenomena that accompany any major governmental action or initiative. A great number of people on a variety of...

“The future ain’t what it used to be.” Yogi Berra was a profound philosopher in the tradition of Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein who also happened to play and coach baseball....

Will we ever be permanently safe from cybercrime? I recently attended an industry conference that focused on the various challenges to mid-market companies ranging from regulatory and tax policy uncertainty...

The American Economy The recent announcement by President Trump that he will appoint Jerome Powell to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve System has prompted a significant amount...

The Great Moderation On February 20, 2004, Ben Bernanke, noted economist and member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, delivered a lecture to the Eastern Economic...

I recently had an interesting conversation with my colleague, Zac Levin, concerning the nature and ambitions of social science. We were discussing the attempts over the centuries to establish scientific...

Like most undergraduates at Brown University, I spent the fall and winter of my junior year intensely focused upon finding an internship for the summer, one that would hopefully lead...