Organic Mechanics
Nov 27 2009 The Financial Times
What do you call a financier in search of the iron laws of human behaviour? Answer: someone with a bad case of “physics envy”.
That is the peculiar psychological disorder diagnosed by Andrew Lo, a professor of financial engineering, as afflicting bankers and economists. Symptoms include a desperate search for the predictive certainty that comes from the hard sciences.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d0e6abde-dacb-11de-933d-00144feabdc0.html
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Organic Mechanics
Nov 27 2009 The Financial Times
What do you call a financier in search of the iron laws of human behaviour? Answer: someone with a bad case of “physics envy”.
That is the peculiar psychological disorder diagnosed by Andrew Lo, a professor of financial engineering, as afflicting bankers and economists. Symptoms include a desperate search for the predictive certainty that comes from the hard sciences.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d0e6abde-dacb-11de-933d-00144feabdc0.html