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The Physics of Wall Street by James Owen Weatherall – book cover

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

By James Owen Weatherall

Business

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.

Release Date
2013
Length
309 pages
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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.