Michael Milken's Spreadsheets: Computation and Charisma in Finance in the Go-Go '80s
Wall Street lore holds that "junk bond" king Michael Milken once blamed the tumultuous changes that roiled American finance in the 1980s on VisiCalc, the pioneering spreadsheet software. This article takes Milken's quip as a prompt to explore the practical and cultural place of comput...
Main Author: | Deringer, William P (Contributor) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
2020-08-24T19:47:30Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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