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Run Time: 30.59 minutes Paul Wilmott, one of the world's leading financial mathematicians criticizes popular concepts within economics and quantitative finance both at the big-picture level and in the detail for the benefit of Quantitative Analysts and Risk Managers everywhere:

- Economists are taking the wrong approach in their models
- The dangerous inconsistencies in the concept of calibration and the lack of understanding of this technique
- Universities concentration on teaching a tiny abstract, mostly irrelevant part of mathematics in their finance...

Volume 1: Mathematical and Financial Foundations; Basic Theory of Derivatives; Risk and Return.
The reader is introduced to the fundamental mathematical tools and financial concepts needed to understand quantitative finance, portfolio management and derivatives. Parallels are drawn between the respectable world of investing and the not-so-respectable world of gambling.

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The Money Formula takes you inside the engine room of the global economy to explore the little-understood world of quantitative finance, and show how the future of our economy rests on the backs of this all-but-impenetrable industry. Written not from a post-crisis perspective - but from a preventative point of view - this book traces the development of financial derivatives from bonds to credit default swaps, and shows how mathematical formulas went beyond pricing to expand their use to the point where they...