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From The Capital Spectator
January 5, 2013 - 4:48am
● The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
By James Owen Weatherall
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A young physicist and contributor to Slate and Scientific American, Weatherall (Logic and Philosophy of Science/Univ. of California, Irvine) was puzzled when experts began blaming the 2008 economic collapse on physicists who created complex financial instruments for...
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