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In the great depression of the 1930s the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote: ‘We have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the workings of which we do not understand.’ In this century the very same machine is far bigger and much more delicate and we continue to struggle desperately to understand just how it works..
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Brief Bibliography Concerning Finance
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Mandelbrot, B. (2010). Fractal Financial Fluctuations. In: Lesmoir-Gordon, N. (eds) The Colours of Infinity. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-486-9_7
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