
The Physics of Wall Street
A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
by James Owen Weatherall
Recommended by Eric Weinstein and Martin Shkreli
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Finance, Business, and Science.
“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 MapsAfter the economic meltdown of 2008, many pundits placed the blame on “complex financial instruments” and the physicists and mathematicians who drea...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Finance, Business, and Science.
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Martin Shkreli
“You can read all about this attempt to disintermediate legacy economics in the final chapter and epilogue of this best selling book from a few years ago by Jim Weatherall in the time before Satoshi:”
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