Mit sloan school of man agement finance pro- essor Andrew Lo traces his inerest in economics to a seemingly unlikely source: science fiction author Isaac Asimov.As a student at New York's Bronx High School of Science in the mid-'70s, Lo was a fan of Asimov's Foundation series, whose central character, Hari Seldon, develops a fictional field of study called psychohistory that lines history, psychology and statistics to predict the actions of a large group of people.
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