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The PredictorsThomas A. Bass

The Predictors

314 pagesFirst published 19992 editions
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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…

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2 in Spinefolk
FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
PaperbackHolt Paperbacks20003209780805057577
EditionH. Holt and Co.19993099780805057560
Investment analysisInvestment advisorsStock price forecastingEconomic forecastingChaotic behavior in systems