My Writing

• The Dōjima futures exchange
  The world's first futures exchange, in 17th and 18th century Japan.
• Grading curves are dollar auctions
  What the dollar auction can teach us about grading curves.
• Reasons to be long or short Bitcoin
  More than bullish hope or bearish scorn, your attitude must also account for your inherent non-financial structural position.
• Tenure, academic publishing, and open source software
  Academic publishing is weird, but not unique.
• What commodity futures are all about
  The vicissitudes of fortune are mostly beyond your control, but futures can give an out.