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The physics of Wall Street : a brief history of predicting the unpredictable / James Owen Weatherall.
LIBRA HG4910 .W357 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weatherall, James Owen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Securities--United States.
- Securities.
- United States.
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 286 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
- Summary:
- A young scholar tells the story of the physicists and mathematicians who created the models that have become the basis of modern finance and argues that these models are the "solution" to--not the source of--our current economic woes.
- Contents:
- Primordial seeds
- Swimming upstream
- From coastlines to cotton prices
- Beating the dealer
- Physics hits the street
- The prediction company
- Tyranny of the dragon king
- A new manhattan project.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780547317274
- 0547317271
- OCLC:
- 772099444
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