Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable Unabridged edition [CD-Audio]

Argues that mathematical models can provide solutions to current economic challenges, explaining that the economic meltdown of 2008 was based on a misunderstanding of scientific models rather than on the failure of the models themselves.



James Owen Weatherall 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.

James Owen Weatherall 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.