A Man for All Markets
The mathematician who beat blackjack, then Wall Street. Probability as a way of life.
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An Engine, Not a Camera
Donald MacKenzie · 2006
How financial models don't just describe markets, they change them. The sociology of Black-Scholes.
For: investors
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