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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. With the immediacy of todays NASDAQ close and the timeless power of a Greek tragedy, The Quants is at once a masterpiece of explanatory journalism, a gripping tale of ambition and hubris, and an ominous warning about Wall Streets future. In March of 2006, four of the worlds richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them. They were accustomed to risking billions. On that night, these four men and their cohorts were the new kings of Wall Street. Muller, Griffin, Asness, and Weinstein were among the best and brightest of a new breed, the quants. Over the prior twenty years, this species of math whiz--technocrats who make billions not with gut calls or fundamental analysis but with formulas and high-speed computers--had usurped the testosterone-fueled, kill-or-be-killed risk-takers whod long been the alpha males the worlds largest casino. The quants helped create a digitized money-trading machine that could shift billions around the globe with the click of a mouse. Few realized, though, that in creating this unprecedented machine, men like Muller, Griffin, Asness and Weinstein had sowed the seeds for historys greatest financial disaster. Drawing on unprecedented access to these four number-crunching titans, The Quants tells the inside story of what they thought and felt in the days and weeks when they helplessly watched much of their net worth vaporize--and wondered just how their mind-bending formulas and genius-level IQs had led them so wrong, so fast. A chronicle of how a financial sector once known as a clubby aristocracy became the playground of the technocrats, THE QUANTS is much more than a 'revenge of the nerds' story. It traces the history of the phenomenon, beginning with a 1950s gambler named Thorp who believed that the markets weren't random, to Thorp's successors, math geniuses spilling from the world's elite schools bent on using formulas and computers to rule the market. In the process it explains how our economy was brought close to collapse, and examines whether this take on the American Dream truly died with the crash. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780307453389