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Theme 4: Quantum economics

   
Modern physics tells us that reality resides not in aggregates but in discrete interactions and transformations the aggregates only dimly reflect. Economics, and the understanding of business built upon it, largely relies on interpretation of aggregates with continuous behaviour. These measures may reflect the behaviour of markets in which discrete transactions are the only reality no more than large number aggregates describe the underlying events of physics.



Editor: John Walker