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Autocracy has become a team sport in which autocrats team-up with kleptocratic financiers, tech surveillance providers, and each other to bring liberal democracy to its knees

Autocracy has become a team sport in which autocrats team-up with kleptocratic financiers, tech surveillance providers, and each other to bring liberal democracy to its knees

Anne Applebaum – Autocracy Inc.

Unfortunately, the strongly opiniated perspectives of the authortake away some of the power of the solid analyses.

Over the past decades, most economists have been forced to flex their opinion on the efficient market hypothesis

Over the past decades, most economists have been forced to flex their opinion on the efficient market hypothesis

Justin Fox – The myth of the rational market

The book resists the temptation to get lost in juicy stories, but focuses on the evolution of ideas.

Financial modelling is not the physics of markets

Financial modelling is not the physics of markets

Emanuel Derman – Models.Behaving.Badly.

Derman’s discussion of models in life, physics, and finance is not a juicy as the title suggests, but it offers some good one-liners nontheless.

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