I’m a non-computable problem
This week, Roger Penrose (along with Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez) received the Nobel Prize in Physics, for his work on black holes among other areas. But it’s his work on the philosophy of mind that appeals most to me, especially in his brilliant book The Emperor’s New Mind.[1] Economics has always shamelessly stolen techniques developed in other fields — and some of Penrose’s ground-breaking work has found its way into the field of economics too. The area I focus