General articles

What is complexity, and what are its implications?  This article, published in the Financial Times in 2001, describes the important concept of power laws.   And this article, published (in translation) in the Italian journal Lettra Internationale in 2002 is about complexity more generally.

There is a lot of concern about inequality, both within Western countries and between countries across the world.  This article, published in the UK Prospect magazine in the July/August issue 2000 takes a wider perspective, and is an antidote to prevailing gloom.

Race riots in some towns and cities of Northern England in 2001 created consternation.  Is Britain a society divided on racial lines?  This article, published in Prospect in January 2002, uses complexity theory to argue that this is not the case.

Here is a link to a piece by Sam Brittan, senior economics writer on the Financial Times, on why economic recessions are not predictable, citing some of my work on this topic.

This article, published in the Times Higher Educational Supplement in 2003, written with medieval historian Andrew Roach, shows how modern social network theory helps us to understand the successes and failures of the medieval Inquisition.