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  • Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation | [George Szpiro]
    Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation
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    Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 3 mins)
    • By George Szpiro
    • Narrated By Brian Troxell
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (70)
    Performance
    (55)
    Story
    (52)

    Financial economist George G. Szpiro here tells the fascinating stories of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search for the elusive options pricing formula. From the broker's assistant who published the first mathematical explanation of financial markets to Albert Einstein and other scientists, Pricing the Future retraces the historical and intellectual developments that ultimately led to the widespread use of mathematical models to drive investment strategies on Wall Street.

    PHIL says: "Petty details detract from the topic"
    "Interesting story, terrible accents!"
    Overall
    Performance
    Story
    Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

    If you're interested in the history of finance and financial theory, then yes this is a nice soft introduction. The author does a reasonably good job of spicing up the fairly dry material with interesting stories that help place the events in their historical setting.


    What do you think the narrator could have done better?

    The book is filled with names, terms and phrases from French, Spanish, Latin and other languages. The narrator absolutely butchers the pronunciation of these. I really wish they'd at least given him a language coach for these bits of the book. It would be comical if it wasn't so sad.


    3 of 3 people found this review helpful

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