Jerry Brown, the LAO, and the Logic of Austerity

Jerry Brown, the LAO, and the Logic of Austerity

The undeniable crisis of student debt has focused political debate on the question of college costs.  Unfortunately state and federal politicians...

How Public Research Universities Are Losing the Framing Wars

How Public Research Universities Are Losing the Framing Wars

Does California, or any other "knowledge economy," want to have public research universities, in the sense of paying for them?  We have reached...

Gov Brown Could Take an Important Step Towards Fixing Higher Ed

Gov Brown Could Take an Important Step Towards Fixing Higher Ed

by Stanton A. Glantz and Christopher Newfield   While Gov. Jerry Brown's interest in online education captured the most headlines last month, the...

The Quant Who Led a Scholar's Life

The Quant Who Led a Scholar's Life

Antonello da Messina, St. Jerome in his Study (1460s). The quantitative trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb became famous after the publication of his book...