Schroedinger's Cash Register

[nebris]

Physicists try to break economists' monopoly on financial theoryHow is the stock market like the nucleus of an atom? To an economist, the question sounds like a joke. It's no laughing matter, however, for physicists seeking to plant their flag in the field of economics

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[darksumomo]

That article's 10 years old. Even so, reading it in retrospect, one can see warning signs of the problems that caused our current situation.

10 years old

[nebris]

Figures. lol

I was reading something on X-Journals and they mentioned 'econophysics' and I got all Hari Seldon and Googled it, which is where the above came from. Oh, well...

~M~

[fischlehrer]

"one can see warning signs of the problems that caused our current situation."
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant