Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Perceptions rather than rules: the (mis)behaviour of markets
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Why do we seem to face 1 in 300 year events every three years? Unlike many physical systems, markets exhibit strange, non-normal statistical distributions. We will consider the complex inter-relationships between perceived risk and society's decisions, the importance of 'feed-forward' and the...