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Options had been traded for centuries, but typically in only an informal, semi-organized way—in the interstices or on the peripheries of mainstream financial markets

For traders to use a model such as Black–Scholes is not like a medieval monarch making someone an outlaw by saying that they are an outlaw: no mathematical fiat.

Mathematical models are, after all, bricolage constructions inscribed with curdled utopias

Free software avoids a particular mechanism of injustice—but it’s not coterminous with all of ethics for computing.

Gramsci was a great Communist leader, but an uncertain Marxist. To demonstrate the aporia of his ideas of hegemony, Althusser drew an equation