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World Service,31 May 2001,24 mins

Econophysics

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The science of finance, and how traders, dealers and brokers avoid losses. How those who work in the financial markets analyse, judge and predict the market, and attempt to avoid crashes. The programme looks at the physicists who are turning their attentions to finances, the econophysicists.

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