Space and Defense
Abstract
A USAFA graduate comments on predicting the unpredictable when surveying new spaces at the frontiers of defense policy.
James Owen Weatherall’s book about the robust interplay of Wall Street and physics is a captivating romp about select physicists as well as a lesson on how finance both succeeds and falls short when it applies mathematical models to predict economic behavior.1 Such a book is a surprising candidate for a review in Space and Defense. Yet the ideas Weatherall presents are innovative, and they offer a framework for thinking about the problems with which this journal is concerned. In fact, The Physics of Wall Street provides a timely solution to a major challenge space and defense policy faces in modeling rare political events.
DOI
10.32873/uno.dc.sd.10.01.1105
Recommended Citation
Kruchkow, Brian M.
(2017)
"Book Review: The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable by James Owen Weatherall,"
Space and Defense: Vol. 10:
No.
0, Article 8.
DOI: 10.32873/uno.dc.sd.10.01.1105
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/spaceanddefense/vol10/iss0/8
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