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Robotics and Markets
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A fascinating article on BBC about a self-learning, dynamic robot, which has been built around the theories of Nikolai Bernstein; the main concept could very well be part of a trading system (though I hate that "trading system" name!).
BBC
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Cathedral Building as an Entry-Deterring Device
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Kyklos, Volume 58 Issue 4 Page 453-465, November 2005 , Brighita Bercea, Robert B. Ekelund Jr, Robert D. Tollison
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Prophet Among Pinstripes
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"Montier flirts regularly with financial heresy. In one of his 40 research notes last year, he argued that investors with more data are not necessarily better off--we have only so much capacity to process information. In another, he claimed that analysts shouldn't bother meeting with execs at the companies they cover since analysts only ask questions that encourage the answers they want to hear."
Fast Company , Iam Wylie
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The Meme...
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A inquiry into self-reproducing and contagious ideas, thought structure, or other information pattern which are propagated in ways similar to that of a gene
Investments Office , Ronald Weber
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Rational Herds
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There are hundreds of fascinating examples of group decision making given in Chamley's excellent book that will illuminate all your thinking about social behavior.
Cambridge University Press, December 2003 , Christophe P. Chamley
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Inferring the Popularity of an Opinion From Its Familiarity: A Repetitive Voice Can Sound Like a Chorus
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007, Vol. 92, No. 5, 821–833 , Kimberlee Weaver, Stephen M. Garcia, Norbert Schwarz, and Dale T. Miller
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Traffic jam of executive aviation
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Radar screenshot of corporate jets leaving Miami, Florida, after the Superbowl XLI, February 4, 2007
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Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Ninteenth Centuries
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How creative artists in the 18th. and 19th. centuries adapted to the vast economic and social changes that occured around them during the greatest era of musical composition. A novel cross-disciplinary arena between music and economic history.
Princeton University Press , F. M. Scherer
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City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
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Full of fresh and insightful observations on how New Yorkers 'read' their city through a remarkable variety of public texts - outdoor signs, billboards and handbills, newspapers, and currency - in the first half of the nineteenth century
Columbia University Press , David M. Henkin, David M. Henkin
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Diagnosing the System for Markets
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In his books Stafford Beer presents a new way of looking at organisational structures; some of the terms and concepts could be applied in a financial markets context; here a few examples:
Investments Office , Ronald Weber
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