Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2010)

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What are the risks of treating the economy and its markets as a complex machine? Will we be able to keep control of this model-based financial system, or have we created a monster?

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Why Was the Financial Crisis Less Enduring in Japan and Other Countries… This Time Around?

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Why have the financial sectors in some countries been less damaged by the financial crisis than others? What role did financial innovations and regulations play? Offering their views are Ronald Gilson of Columbia Law School, Takatoshi Ito of the University of Tokyo, Floyd Norris of the New York Times, Jacques Longerstaey of State Street Global Advisors and Thierry Porte of J.C. Flowers.

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Should Finance Professors Take the Blame for the Financial Crisis?

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Business writer Justin Fox discusses rational markets and the role finance professors play in assessing and teaching efficient market models.

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Does the Practice of Quantitative Finance Need to Be Changed?

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Academics and industry experts discuss how financial innovation and quantitative models contributed to the financial crisis. Featured here are Paul Glasserman of Columbia Business School, Emanuel Derman of Columbia University, Daniel Beunza of the London School of Economics, Kent Daniel of Goldman Sachs and Adam Parker of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.

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