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Burton Malkiel | WSJ | 14 December 2011

Masterful review of a fascinating new book "Models Behaving Badly" by Emanuel Derman. Lays bare an ugly truth: Financial models do not provide accurate descriptions of reality. At best they oversimplify. Finance is not physics Read full article

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