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The physics of Wall Street : a brief history of predicting the unpredictable / James Owen Weatherall.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-268) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0547618298
- 9780547618296
- Publisher Number:
- 99952231203
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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