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...

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Main Author: Deringer, William P (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-08-24T19:47:30Z.
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