"Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality."

Wishful Thinking

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About Andrew Lo

Andrew W. Lo is a Hong Kong-born Taiwanese-American economist and finance professor at MIT Sloan. He is known for research in financial economics and for founding AlphaSimplex Group. He directs MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering.

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