The Economic Crisis and its Implications for The Science of Economics

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Prior to any Economic Manhattan project maybe a study of Ethical  
behavior in the financial area would be more profitable djf


Begin forwarded message:

From: Dennis Allison <drallison () gmail com>
Date: April 25, 2009 3:22:35 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: allison () stanford edu
Subject: The Economic Crisis and its Implications for The Science of  
Economics

For IP if you think it worthy:

Dave,

I'd like to call the attention of IP readers to an interdisciplinary  
conference on The Economic Crisis and its Implications for The Science  
of Economics being held in Toronto May 1-4 at the Perimeter Institute  
and to a talk being given in the EE Computer Systems Colloquium at  
Stanford this Wednesday, April 29th.  Both are related to the current  
financial crisis and what we might do, as scientists and engineers, to  
help resolve the situation.

CONFERENCE:

For more information on the conference.

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/en/Events/The_Economic_Crisis_and_Implications_for_Science/The_Economic_Crisis_and_its_Implications_for_The_Science_of_Economics/

Registration is required (seating is limited) but there is no charge  
for the event.

From the Conference Abstract:

Concerns over the current financial situation are giving rise to a  
need to evaluate the very mathematics that underpins economics as a  
predictive and descriptive science. A growing desire to examine  
economics through the lens of diverse scientific methodologies -  
including physics and complex systems - is making way to a meeting of  
leading economists and theorists of finance together with physicists,  
mathematicians, biologists and computer scientists in an effort to  
evaluate current theories of markets and identify key issues that can  
motivate new directions for research. Perimeter Institute was  
suggested to be the gathering point and conference organizers plan to  
foster a very careful, dispassionate discussion, in an atmosphere  
governed by the modesty and open mindedness that characterizes the  
scientific community.

COLLOQUIUM:

One of the conference organizers, Eric Weinstein, will be speaking in  
the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium (http:// 
ee380.stanford.edu) Wednesday 4:15-5:30PM Pacific.  He will argue for  
the need to have a broadly based, interdisciplinary "Economic  
Manhattan Project", a global effort to develop sophisticated  
quantitative models and tools that could be used to guide us out of  
the financial/economic current crisis.

Eric's lecture will be given before a live audience in the Gates  
Computer Science Building (room B1) on the Stanford Campus; this is a  
public lecture and anyone is welcome to attend.  The lecture will be  
available over the Internet by webcast in real time (questions via  
Twitter) and will be available for on-demand viewing from the  
Colloquium website about an hour or two following completion of the  
talk.  In time, Colloquium lectures are available on YouTube and  
iTunes and other distribution channels.  See the website for details.

Dennis Allison
Computer Systems Laboratory
Stanford University






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