Les Coleman is a finance academic at the University of Melbourne. He trained as an engineer and spent 25 years in various line, planning and finance roles in Australia, the USA and Zambia. He returned to study and completed a PhD entitled Why Managers and Companies Take Risks (Springer, Heidelberg, 2006). Research leveraged his practitioner experience through field interviews which showed that managers and investors make little use of finance theory. Les was compelled by metaresearch and evidence that most disciplines use some form of dark matter to explain 90+ percent of observations. He published Research in Crisis: Blueprint to overhaul the knowledge factory (Routledge, London, 2020) and – appreciating the success of econophysics – reversed its direction to study physics from a finance researcher’s perspective.
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equity pricing
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reverse econophysics
Newton's Law
'Oumuamua
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Newton's Law
Short Biography
Les Coleman is a finance academic at the University of Melbourne. He trained as an engineer and spent 25 years in various line, planning and finance roles in Australia, the USA and Zambia. He returned to study and completed a PhD entitled Why Managers and Companies Take Risks (Springer, Heidelberg, 2006). Research leveraged his practitioner experience through field interviews which showed that managers and investors make little use of finance theory. Les was compelled by metaresearch and evidence that most disciplines use some form of dark matter to explain 90+ percent of observations. He published Research in Crisis: Blueprint to overhaul the knowledge factory (Routledge, London, 2020) and – appreciating the success of econophysics – reversed its direction to study physics from a finance researcher’s perspective.
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