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Steve Diamond also has some kind words for Mandelbrot along with links to a fifty two minute discussion on the financial meltdown and PowerPoint slides. Click on the link at the bottom of this post.
Rather than award the Nobel to Obamabot liberal Paul Krugman whose economic theory underpins modern mercantilism (and thus heightens the prospect of global trade wars leading to real wars) the prize should have gone to the brilliant mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot.
Why?
Watch this podcast from a recent News Hour show which indicates the power and relevance of Mandelbrot’s work on the current fragility and volatility in the global financial markets.
Mandelbrot makes clear why the world is far more complex and risky than we like to think. Certainly the anarchic ownership structure we use to manage it is not up to the task.
