James Owen Weatherall
James Owen Weatherall is a physicist, mathematician and philosopher. He is Assistant Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His book The Physics of Wall Street was published in 2013.
Books by James Owen Weatherall
Interviews with James Owen Weatherall
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1
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
by Benoit B. Mandelbrot -
2
Foundations of Economic Analysis
by Paul A. Samuelson -
3
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
by Didier Sornette -
4
Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System
by Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassouf -
5
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
by Lee Smolin
The best books on Physics and Financial Markets, recommended by James Owen Weatherall
The best books on Physics and Financial Markets, recommended by James Owen Weatherall
Blaming “the quants” for the 2008 financial crisis is simplistic and short-sighted, says the author of The Physics of Wall Street. He picks five books showing the contribution physics has made to understanding financial markets.
