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The Physics of Wall Street A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

Paperback • 2014 • English

The Physics of Wall Street A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

By James Owen Weatherall

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About the book

Weatherall probes an epochal shift in financial strategizing with lucidity, explaining how it occurred and what it means for modern finance. Peter Galison, author of Einstein s Clocks, Poincare s Maps After the economic meltdown of 2008, many pundits placed the blame on complex financial instruments and the physicists and mathematicians who dreamed them up. But how is it that physicists came to drive Wall Street? And were their ideas really the cause of the collapse? In The Physics of Wall Str...Show more

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9780544112438

Publisher

Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

The Physics of Wall Street A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

Format

Paperback

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