Category: Mathematics

Do financial instruments count as technology?

Re this, JB comments that showing any kind of relationship between financial and technological innovation is kind of hard, but rather liked this illustration – of what happens when you let an entrepreneur also run monetary policy. (When was Spain’s first bubble? Spanish Wikipedia is big on Anglo disasters, but doesn’t mention Spanish railways in…
A broker converting coin into MIssissippi stock in the Dutch print series, Het grote tafereel der dwaasheid, The great scene of folly.

Gaudí Sands, a retro slave colony?

Gaudí’s work was financed from the fortune built upon Joan Güell’s Cuban slave empire, so if Eurovegas is going to come to the marshes of the Llobregat, what more appropriate way to staff it than by shackling and transporting some of the tens of thousands of locally unemployed Africans?

Counting the corrupt

A numerate, corrupt mayor, some innumerate anti-corruption campaigners, and de Tocqueville.

100% of Spanish graduates interviewed (sample size: 1) said this <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rechentisch.png'>abacus</a> was in fact architect's plans for a bowling alley.

New World Order

Someone remind me why Gaddafi is to be pursued for crimes against humanity but Laurent Gbagbo is not.