At the outset, Charlie mischievously admitted that he was about to play something of a trick on his audience. Rather than discussing the stock market, he intended to talk about “stock picking as a subdivision of the art of worldly wisdom.”1 For the next hour and a half, he challenged the students to broaden their vision of the market, of finance, and of economics in general and to see them not as separate disciplines but as part of a larger body of knowledge, one that also incorporates physics, biology, social studies, psychology, philosophy, literature, and mathematics.
