The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market by Ayache, Elie
The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market by Ayache, Elie

The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market

In The Medium of Contingency Elie Ayache builds upon his ground-breaking book The Blank Swan, in exploring...
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The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market by Ayache, Elie

The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market

CHF 135.73
The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market by Ayache, Elie

The Medium of Contingency: An Inverse View of the Market

CHF 135.73
Author: Elie Ayache
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In The Medium of Contingency Elie Ayache builds upon his ground-breaking book The Blank Swan, in exploring the intersection of philosophy and finance, introducing new notions of price and market. Inverting the received view, he now sees a creation of matter in both the market and its metaphysics, rather than pure speculation.

Once recognized as the proper medium of contingency and disassociated from the probabilistic and statistical tools traditionally used to model it, the market can be thought as 'real', in a new sense of reality corresponding to the new sense of matter. To bring this new and original perspective, The Medium of Contingency builds on probability theory as first formalized by von Mises and Kolmogorov, and later revisited by Shafer and Vovk. It utilises the author's extensive experience in derivatives pricing technology and software, as well as his work in the philosophy of contingency and contingent claims, to propose a new philosophical interpretation of Brownian motion and of the Black-Scholes-Merton formula. Then it completes the overturning of the traditional view of the market by arguing that there should be no difference, ultimately, between an underlying asset and the derivative written on it.

This book does not aim to change the market but the way we must think of it. It is the author's conviction that there can be no philosophy of the market, and consequently no thinking of it, without a philosophy of contingent claims and of derivative pricing. The book provides the missing piece, which the philosophy of probability cannot provide alone. Its scope, however, extends beyond the strict critique of financial mathematics, as it also, and perhaps most importantly, delivers the author's definitive treatment of the philosophically prominent and recently much discussed notion of contingency.



Author: Elie Ayache
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/29/2015
Pages: 414
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.70h x 7.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781137286543

About the Author
ELIE AYACHE was born in Lebanon in 1966. Trained as an engineer at l'École Polytechnique of Paris, he pursued a career of option market-maker on the floor of MATIF (1987-1990) and LIFFE (1990-1995). He then turned to the philosophy of probability (DEA at la Sorbonne) and to derivative pricing and co-founded ITO 33, a financial software company, in 1999. Today, ITO 33 is the leading specialist in the pricing of convertible bonds, in the equity-to-credit problem, and more generally, in the calibration and recalibration of volatility surfaces. Elie has published many articles on the philosophy of contingent claims, as well as The Blank Swan: The End of Probability.
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