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The Odd Hobby of Wisden Collecting

If you’ve ever visited the home of a cricket enthusiast, a so-called badger in cricket-lingo, you may have noticed a set of yellow books on their bookshelves. These books are short and thick with faded spines. But despite their unassuming nature, these collections often form the crown jewels of one’s library. Those in the know […]

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Why did Fama stop at Financial Markets?

My undergraduate dissertation had the ever catchy title An Investigation into the Effects of Passive Investing on Equity Market Efficiency. I won’t bore you with the results; I certainly won’t bore you with the methods by which I went about getting them. Instead, I thought it may be interesting to think about the applications of […]

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Escaping Colonial Guilt

“The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly. And it was at this moment, as I stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hollowness, the futility of the white man’s dominion in the […]