Learning on ScreenMidas Formula, The
- Synopsis
- Story of the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which appeared to remove the risk from playing the money markets, thus making possible massive financial gains. Its inventors teamed up with Wall Street dealers to from LTCM, a company that traded billions, but when things went wrong, LTCM collapsed and endangered the entire global economy.
- Series
- Horizon, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
- Year of production
- 1999
- Availability
- Sale; 2007 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)
- Notes
- Broadcast on BBC2 on 2/12/99.
- Subjects
- Business studies
- Keywords
- financial markets
Credits
- Producer
- Malcolm Clark
- Contributor
- Bettina Lerner
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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