The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street - Softcover

Bass, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805057579 ISBN 13: 9780805057577

Publisher: Holt, 2000

Synopsis

Excerpted in The New Yorker and hailed by the business press, The Predictors is destined to become a classic of its generation--an antic, subversive odyssey into a universe defined by the mystical convergence of physics and finance.

How could a couple of rumpled physicists in sandals and Eat-the-Rich T-shirts, piling computers into an adobe house in Santa Fe, hope to take on the masters of the universe from Morgan Stanley? Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard may never have read The Wall Street Journal, but they happen to be among the founders of the new sciences of chaos and complexity. Who better to try to find order in the apparently unreasoned chaos of the global financial markets? Thomas A. Bass takes us inside their start-up company, following it from its inception as a motley collection of longhaired Ph.D.s to its passage into the centers of financial power, where "the predictors" find investors and finally go live with real money. The Predictors is a dizzying, often hilarious tale of genius and greed.

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About the Author

Thomas A. Bass, the author of The Eudaemonic Pie and several other books. He writes for Wired and other magazines. He lives in Clinton, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Holt
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805057579
• ISBN 13: 9780805057577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324