Robert May, an eminent climate change expert, has argued that techniques from his discipline may help explain financial-market developments. Epidemiologists have suggested that the study of how infectious diseases are propagated may illuminate the unusual patterns of financial contagion that we have seen in the last five years.
虽然到目前为止已经得到一些回应，但特里谢从他所信任的工程师和物理学家那里获得的帮助还相对较少。著名的气候变化专家罗伯特·梅（Robert May）认为他的学科技术可以帮助解释金融市场的发展。而流行病学家则认为对传染性疾病如何传播的研究可以用来阐述过去五年金融危机蔓延的模式。