Re: [Pen-l] Benoit Mandelbrot and the wildness of financial markets: SciAm

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From: michael perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:30:33 -0700
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Regarding Mandelbrot's condemnation of economists' appropriation of physics -- I covered some of the humorous history of the economists' machinations at becoming physics like in The Invisible Handcuffs. You will especially appreciate the exchange between Macleod and James Clerk Maxwell.

http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/physics-and-economics/


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- [Pen-l] Benoit Mandelbrot and the wildness of financial markets: SciAm
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- Re: [Pen-l] Benoit Mandelbrot and the wildness of financial markets: SciAm
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- [Pen-l] Benoit Mandelbrot and the wildness of financial markets: SciAm, ravi Mon 16 Mar 2009, 19:03 GMT
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      Re: [Pen-l] Benoit Mandelbrot and the wildness of financial markets: SciAm, Doug Henwood Tue 17 Mar 2009, 15:26 GMT
      
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