Author Archives: Mukul PAL

The Fat Tail

By Mukul PAL | Published: 5 August, 2010
Last time we talked about divergence, how life and nature is replete with divergence cases and the debate built around it. The funny part of all this debate is that we are somewhere still living the blind men and the elephant metaphor. We don’t see the big picture. If Herbert Simon is to be believed [...]
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Time Fractals – SSRN top 10 (1997-2010)

By Mukul PAL | Published: 3 August, 2010
“The Time Fractals”, was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for ERN: Other Econometrics: Mathematical Methods & Programming (Topic). As of 08/03/2010, your paper has been downloaded 185 times. You may view the abstract and download statistics at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1585967. Top Ten Lists are updated on a daily basis. Click on the following link [...]
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Smith, Pareto and the divergence debate

By Mukul PAL | Published: 24 July, 2010
Life is all about making sense of information. This information could be personal, economic, or societal kind. When we comprehend information, we make a decision, which we assume to be positive. So at a certain level we are trying to understand performance and how to perform as individuals and make performant choices? Performance assumes a [...]
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