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Financial engineers have put too much faith in untested axioms and faulty models, says Jean-Philippe Bouchaud. To prevent economic havoc, that needs to change.
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Jean-Philippe Bouchaud is head of research of Capital Fund Management and a physics professor at cole Polytechnique in France. jean-philippe.bouchaud@cea.fr ,
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