In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

Over the past 50 years, the growth rate of the global human population has slowed markedly, from 2.1 percent annual growth in the late ’60s to about 1.2 percent today. Think 1.2 sounds low? Then you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, the study by Alessio Zaccone and the late Kostya Trachenko doesn’t predict population ...

I was hoping someone could help me solve this math problem that I thought up (perhaps this would better fit in the Lounge, I dunno, but it is at least tangentially connected to some groups' theories ...

The title of today’s post comes from an excellent recent talk in London given by my AEI colleague (and University of Pennsylvania professor), Jesús Fernández-Villaverde. Today I look at the simple ...