Globalisation: 'Sceptical' Notes on the 1999 Reith Lectures

Notes for the Istanbul Lectures

PRUS notes Globalisation and Poverty

There is no general consensus on the definition of globalisation. Put simply, it is a process of increasing connectivity, where ideas, capital, goods, services and people are transferred across country borders. This briefing paper discusses an aspect of economic globalisation – market access – and how this affects the rural poor. Despite all the criticisms lodged against globalisation, it is in...

GAUSSIAN FIELDS Notes for Lectures

DISCLAIMER: I have not (yet) properly acknowledged individually the sources for the material, especially in the beginning of the notes. These include Neveu’s and Adler’s courses on Gaussian processes [Ad90], the Ledoux-Talagrand book, and various articles. Acknowledgments: To the participants of the topics in probability (Fall 2013) at NYU for many comments, and to Nathanael Berestycki for addi...

7 Notes for Miscellaneous Lectures

Here I share a few notes I used in various course lectures, talks, etc. Some may be just calculations that in the textbooks are more complicated, scattered, or less specific; others may be simple observations I found useful or curious. 1 Nemirovski Estimate of Mean of Arbitrary Distributions with Bounded Variance The popular Chernoff bounds assume severe restrictions on distribution: it must be...

Some notes on new frontiers of sexuality and globalisation