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Econophysicists find a forum

Sep 2, 1999

Over the past decade, banks and financial institutions have been hiring physicists and mathematicians with PhDs on a large scale. At one time, according to an article in The Economist in 1993, most of the scientists working in the field of finance were a bit embarrassed to be caught rubbing shoulders with mammon. But times have changed, and in mid-July the European Physical Society held its first conference on the applications of physics to financial analysis in Dublin.

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