Sto leggendo questo saggio con pensieri e sentimenti contrastanti...
Il 15 settembre 2008, il giorno del fallimento di Lehman Brothers, mi venne in mente il commento che (dopo eventi ben più drammatici) fece Julius Robert Oppenheimer "the physicists have known sin, and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." Nel saggio di cui sopra leggo:
When physicists made the atomic bomb they realized what they had conceived and immediately felt a sober responsibility to help make the world safe from their invention. At this time there is a responsibility for those with the knowledge and skills to understand the financial instruments involved in this crisis to help first to resolve this crisis and to next turn their attention to the design and regulation of a stable market system. This will involve economists, mathematicians, physicists, biologists, computer scientists and others working together to make a more stable economic system.
...e finiscono con il proporre un "Manhattan Project" per rimettere in piedi finanza ed economia...
Altre osservazioni sull'argomento da un "quant" eminente.
