Economy
The equation that changed how Wall Street prices risk
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The chaotic floor of global finance was fundamentally tamed by an elegant sequence of theoretical math. The Black-Scholes model, published in 1973, provided a robust way to determine the fair price of market options. This solitary academic equation unleashed a multi-trillion dollar derivatives industry and completely transformed how modern financial risk is measured.
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