Privatizing Russia offers an inside look at one of the most remarkable reforms in recent history. Having started on the back burner of Russian politics in the fall of 1991, mass privatization was completed on July 1, 1994, with two thirds of the Russian industry privately owned, a rapidly rising...

The question of information cascades in finance appears in the literature. We use the dynamics of Kolmogorov's 1962 (K62) turbulence model, an example of multiaffine scaling, to illustrate how evidence for diffusion from large to small length scales, or correspondingly an information cascade...

Interest in thermodynamic analogies in economics is older than the idea of von Neumann to look for market entropy in liquidity, advice that was not taken in any thermodynamic analogy presented so far in the literature. In this paper, we go further and use a standard strategy from trading theory...