Books by Lee Smolin
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
by Lee Smolin
His diagnosis about what’s happened in physics is that the string theory community became powerful when there was a lot of initial excitement about the programme, but then became entrenched and self-reinforcing.
Interviews where books by Lee Smolin were recommended
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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
by Benoit B. Mandelbrot -
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Foundations of Economic Analysis
by Paul A. Samuelson -
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Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
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Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System
by Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassouf -
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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.
