Author name: Ole Peters

Physicist. Program Lead for Ergodicity Economics, London Mathematical Laboratory. External Professor, Santa Fe Institute. https://twitter.com/ole_b_peters

Concepts, History

Gas in a box or nuclear explosion?

2 March 2017

This post is about mindset, culture, implicit assumptions. The big assumption in neoclassical economics is ergodicity, or equilibrium, or stationarity, or stability — basically the idea that nothing ever changes […]

Concepts, Technical

Reproducibility and weak ergodicity breaking

14 February 2017

The term “weak ergodicity breaking” helps categorize things by their ergodic properties: ergodic strongly non-ergodic weakly non-ergodic This list is chronological, in that there used to be an implicit belief