Writer and Professor Emeritus of Financial Engineering at Columbia University
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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian
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Models Behaving Badly
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The Volatility Smile
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My Life as a Quant
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Why Is This Interesting? – The Tetragrammaton Edition
A single name–Bjork or Madonna–is grand. A single name with its own name is even grander.
Emanuel Derman on X
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“I found four voices: André the flighty, off-the-wall rich kid; André the guru; André the spiritual used-car salesman; and the sincere André (who appears briefly at the end of the film).”
This is one of of first three.
Robert Skidelsky, economic historian, 1939-2026 via @FT
“I have come to see economics as a fundamentally regressive discipline . . . disguised by increasingly sophisticated mathematics and statistics.”
Heard him at Columbus during GFC
Robert Skidelsky, economic historian, 1939-2026
The biographer of Keynes straddled disciplines and political parties in a lengthy and often controversial career
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South Africa’s new Trump whisperer via @FT
A new Trump whisperer for South Africa
Sending a white Afrikaner as ambassador to the US is a diplomatic masterstroke
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The vast superiority of golf umbrellas
https://open.substack.com/pub/whyisthisinteresting/p/the-golf-umbrella-edition?r=2fez&utm_medium=ios