The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable Weatherall James Owen
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable Weatherall James Owen Weatherall probes an epochal shift in financial strategizing with lucidity, explaining how it…
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The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable Weatherall James Owen
Weatherall probes an epochal shift in financial strategizing with lucidity, explaining how it occurred and what it means for modern finance. But how is it that physicists came to drive Wall Street? Peter Galison, author of Einstein s Clocks, Poincare s MapsAfter the economic meltdown of 2008, many pundits placed the blame on complex financial instruments and the physicists and mathematicians who dreamed them up.
He tells the story of how physicists first moved to finance, bringing science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from bubbles to options pricing. And were their ideas really the cause of the collapse?In The Physics of Wall Street, the physicist James Weatherall answers both of these questions. The problem isn t simply that economic models have limitations and can break down under certain conditions, but that at the time of the
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