Main & Wall University Library
The Thinking Behind Modular-Finance-in-Motion™ (MFiM™)
The ideas shaping the future of finance already exist.
They have emerged across disciplines—economics, finance, psychology, systems theory, and the liberal arts.
What’s missing is not ideas.It’s integration.
This is the intellectual foundation of Main & Wall®.
COMPLEXITY & SYSTEMS
Complexity & Systems (The World As It Is)
Thinkers:
● Brian Arthur
● Doyne Farmer
● David Colander
● Prasanna Gai
● Richard Bookstaber
● Doyne Farmer
● David Colander
● Prasanna Gai
● Richard Bookstaber
Insight:
The economy is not a machine.
It is a complex adaptive system.
MFiM Translation:
You don’t control the system.
You operate inside it.
UNCERTAINTY & DECISION-MAKING
Thinkers:
● John Kay & Mervyn King
● Nassim Taleb
● Daniel Kahneman
● Philip Tetlock
● Nassim Taleb
● Daniel Kahneman
● Philip Tetlock
Insight:
The future is not fully knowable. Prediction has limits.
MFiM Translation:
You don’t predict the system.
You navigate it.
BEHAVIOR & BELIEFS
Thinkers:
● Gennaioli & Shleifer
● Robert Shiller
● Michael Lewis
● Robert Shiller
● Michael Lewis
Insight:
Markets are driven by stories and behavior.
MFiM Translation:
The system is human.
Act accordingly.
CAPITALISM REIMAGINED
Thinkers:
● Anatole Kaletsky
● Dani Rodrik
● Paul Tudor Jones
● Alex Edmans
● Bruce Bolger
● Dani Rodrik
● Paul Tudor Jones
● Alex Edmans
● Bruce Bolger
Insight:
Capitalism is evolving.
MFiM Translation:
We are participating in its evolution.
LEARNING & ADAPTATION
Thinkers:
● Ed Hess
● Paul Barnett
● Ed Morrison
● Chris Mayer
● Paul Barnett
● Ed Morrison
● Chris Mayer
Insight:
Learning and doing are inseparable.
MFiM Translation:
Learning is Alpha.
THINKING & DESIGN
Thinkers:
● Roger Martin
● Jeann ● Gillian Tett
● Jeann ● Gillian Tett
Insight:
How you frame a problem determines the outcome.
MFiM Translation:
It’s a lens problem.
WISDOM & INTERDISCIPLINARY THINKING
Thinkers:
● Charlie Munger
● Peter Bevelin
● Robert Hagstrom
● Mihir Desai
● Ed Freeman
● Peter Bevelin
● Robert Hagstrom
● Mihir Desai
● Ed Freeman
Insight:
No single discipline is sufficient.
MFiM Translation:
Finance is a team sport.
These ideas do not exist in isolation.
They converge.
MFiM™ is the integration of this thinking—
applied in motion, inside the system.
The ideas are here.Now it’s time to use them.