Domain Musings
Speculative notes on the finance domain — on money, value, currency, trading and the philosophy of modeling the field. These started life inside the ORE Studio project docs but felt more at home here, as ramblings rather than reference material.
| Page | Topic |
|---|---|
| Computational Finance | Intro to the field and scoping the ambitions of the project. |
| Money | A working definition of money, rooted in Wikipedia. |
| Functions of Money | Medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account. |
| Kinds of Money | Historical evolution: commodity, fiat, and beyond. |
| Money and its Close Relatives | Concepts adjacent to money. |
| Currency | The concept of currency, distinct from money. |
| Cash | Cash, liquidity, and the friction of asset conversion. |
| Trading | Valuation, value and the mechanics of exchange. |
| Finance and Modeling | A meta-essay on modeling rigour in finance versus established fields. |