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Weatherall, James Owen.
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Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Physics -- Methodology -- Economic aspects.
Economic forecasting.
Securities -- United States.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century.
United States -- Economic policy -- 21st century.
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Weatherall, James Owen.
Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Physics -- Methodology -- Economic aspects.
Economic forecasting.
Securities -- United States.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century.
United States -- Economic policy -- 21st century.
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The
physics
of Wall Street : a brief history of predicting the unpredictable / James Owen Weatherall.
by
Weatherall, James Owen.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Call #:
332.632 W362p
Subjects
Financial crises
--
United States
--
History
--
21st century.
Physics
--
Methodology
--
Economic
aspects
.
Economic
forecasting.
Securities
--
United States.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
--
History
--
21st century.
United States
--
Economic
policy
--
21st century.
ISBN:
9780547317274
0547317271
Description:
xviii, 286 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-268) and index.
Contents:
Of quants and other demons
--
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
--
Send
physics
, math, and money!
Summary:
While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance. From fin-de-siècle Paris to Rat Pack-era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes on the Pacific coast, Weatherall shows how physicists successfully brought their science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from options pricing to bubbles. The 2008 crisis was partly a failure of mathematical modeling, but even more, it was a failure of some very sophisticated financial institutions to think like physicists. Models--whether in science or finance--have limitations; they break down under certain conditions. And in 2008, sophisticated models fell into the hands of people who didn't understand their purpose, and didn't care. It was a catastrophic misuse of science. The solution, however, is not to give up on models; it's to make them better. Weatherall reveals the people and ideas on the cusp of a new era in finance. This book is riveting history that will change how we think about our
economic
future.
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