Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics
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Many investors these days are a bit like Dorothy, putting their faith in something as solid and trustworthy as a house (or, say, real estate). But market disruptions—storms—seem to arrive without warning, leaving us little time to react. Why are we so often blindsided by these things, left outdoors with nothing but our little dogs? More to the point: how did Kansas go from blue skies to tornadoes in such a short time?
In this deeply researched and piercingly intelligent book, physicist Mark Buchanan shows how a simple feedback loop can lead to major consequences, the kind predictable by mathematical models but hard for most people to anticipate. From his unique perspective, Buchanan argues that our basic assumptions about economic markets—that they are for the most part stable, with occasional interruptions—are simply wrong. Markets really act more like the weather: a brief heat wave can become a massive storm in a matter of a few days, or even hours.
The Physics of Finance reimagines the basics of how economics, with consequences that affect everyone.
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Mark Buchanan. (2013). Forecast: What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury Publishing.
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- bioText: Physicist Mark Buchanan is a former editor at Nature and New Scientist, and is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles internationally. He currently writes monthly columns for the financial media outlet Bloomberg View, as well as for Nature Physics. He has written two prize-nominated non-fiction books, Ubiquity: The Science of History and Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks, and, most recently, The Social Atom. He lives in Dorset, England.
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Time to grapple with the stormy realities of an unbalanced marketplace, argues this scathing critique of economics-as-usual. Physicist and journalist Buchanan (The Social Atom) attacks what he thinks are the unrealistic assumptions of modern economics: that financial markets efficiently process all information; that humans make perfectly rational decisions; that market economies reliably find a placid equilibrium when freed from regulation. To understand the real economy of irrational mortgage bubbles, prolonged recessions, and split-second stock-market crashes, he contends, we must look to other sciences—meteorology, physics, cognitive psychology—for insights into the intrinsic instabilities of complex systems like the market. Buchanan’s case against mainstream free market economics, which takes aim at Nobel luminaries like Milton Friedman, Robert Lucas, and Gary Becker is a lucid, cogent one that reveals the shaky foundations of much overconfident theorizing and ill-conceived deregulatory policies. His brief for a new economics of nonequilibrium dynamics is less incisive; he does a good job explaining some conceptual underpinnings of the science of complexity, but since that approach relies on modeling chaotic markets with mysterious black-box computer simulations, it lacks the analytical clarity and catchiness of neoclassical economics’ simplistic theories. Still, Buchanan offers a compelling outsiders’ take on the hubris and failures of reigning economic orthodoxies. Agent: Lisa Adams, the Garamond Agency.
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Former Nature and New Scientist editor Buchanan (The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You, 2007, etc.) offers his take on why economic theory breaks down when it comes to making predictions. The author focuses on the increasingly evident failures of contemporary economic theory to offer either useful or timely predictions of future problems. He proceeds from the assumption that "merely predicting what is possible and likely can be hugely valuable, giving us warnings of specific dangers." He compares the failures of the still-dominant school of economics--which failed to predict the 2008 crash--with weather forecasting. Prior to World War I, weather forecasting, as a predictive discipline, was in roughly the same shape that economics is in now. Modern predictive capabilities, including tornado and hurricane warnings, still stem from work done in the late 1950s. During the same time period, economics was going in the opposite direction, elaborating a theory based on self-stabilizing equilibrium. Buchanan summarizes the theory as it developed from the work of Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu and shows how mechanisms associated with positive feedback were ignored. He provides some intriguing documentation on how Nobel-winning economists like Milton Friedman and others have resorted to verbal games to defend "unrealistic assumptions." Buchanan also features other economists who reject empirical data that doesn't fit their theoretical models or represent "the reverse attitude that rejects theories that do fit the data if they don't fit the theoretical orthodoxy." The author's stimulating deconstruction of contemporary economic theory parallels a treatment of major positive developments in physical sciences and pays due respect to the functions of government and law.COPYRIGHT(2013) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Many investors these days are a bit like Dorothy, putting their faith in something as solid and trustworthy as a house (or, say, real estate). But market disruptions—storms—seem to arrive without warning, leaving us little time to react. Why are we so often blindsided by these things, left outdoors with nothing but our little dogs? More to the point: how did Kansas go from blue skies to tornadoes in such a short time?
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