Economy
Hojjatollah Sadeqi
Abstract
The book, Physics of Finance, reviews the historical story of interactions between physics and finance. The author of the book describes how models of physics focus on financial issues in an intertextual way and seeks to demonstrate the proliferation of physical models in finance and ...
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The book, Physics of Finance, reviews the historical story of interactions between physics and finance. The author of the book describes how models of physics focus on financial issues in an intertextual way and seeks to demonstrate the proliferation of physical models in finance and how the quantitative analysis of Quants (quantitative financial analysts) - as an antecedent of the 2008-2007 financial crisis or not-, will shape the future of financial knowledge. In this paper, while introducing the whole structure of the book, its various aspects of form and content are criticized based on the concepts of intertextuality and interdisciplinary studies. The intertextual approach is a level of analysis that examines the relationship between physics (as text A) and finance (as text B), and the interdisciplinary view is a level of analysis that describes their relationship as two distinct disciplines. These two disciplines have their own subject, method, and purpose. Following these studies, the main advantage of the book are the narrative form, the historical, precise look, and its main drawbacks are to ignore the clear critique of behavioral economists and other quantitative financial critics into financial physics.
Linguistics and Ancient Languages
Atoosa Rostambeik Tafreshi
Volume 14, Issue 32 , February 2015, , Pages 51-72
Abstract
Humanities can be described as the study of different ways in which people all around the world, in different periods of time, process and document the human experience. The nature of human beings as multidimensional creatures urges the necessity of multidisciplinary concerns in humanities in which linguistics ...
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Humanities can be described as the study of different ways in which people all around the world, in different periods of time, process and document the human experience. The nature of human beings as multidimensional creatures urges the necessity of multidisciplinary concerns in humanities in which linguistics is included. In this article, after discussing the nature of language, linguistics, and humanities a short history of development of this field as a scientific study is presented. Using a descriptive-analytic method, the role of linguistics as a scientific study of language is discussed in relation to other fields of humanities including sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, philosophy, politics and law. This study shows that there is a deep and undeniable relation between linguistics and other fields in humanities which itself sometimes results in developing different interdisciplinary branches in linguistics. Nevertheless, most of the fields studied in this article lack linguistics in their syllabi
