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Nicolas Bouleau

Nicolas Bouleau

Nicolas Bouleau is Professor Emeritus at the École des Ponts ParisTech, where he was director of the Research Center in Mathematics and Scientific Computing. He is the author, most recently, of Le mensonge de la finance: Les mathématiques, le signal-prix et la planète (L’Atelier, 2018). icon

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Financial Markets Were Not Designed to Manage the Planet

By Nicolas Bouleau

In a market economy, almost by definition, it is the price of things that ...

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