Do physicists have better tools than economists or financial experts for predicting economic crises? Mainstream economists largely failed to forecast the sub-prime mortgage bubble, the ensuing ...

The modern trend for physicists to work on problems in finance and economics began in the early 1990s and has gained momentum ever since. In the past few years, however, this field of 'econophysics' ...

A researcher has used "econophysics" to show that under ideal circumstances free markets promote fair salaries for workers and do not support excessive CEO compensation practices common today. The ...

There's a fun little movement to insist that physicists have some major contributions that they can make to economics. And it's most certainly true that both subjects use vast amounts of difficult ...

Professor of Physics, Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University Econophysics is an emerging field applying theories and methods from physics to economic ...

With reference to the survey article, "Econophysics: An Emerging Discipline" (EPW, 11 August 2012), this note critically examines the claim that econophysics provides an alternative to mainstream ...

Like many portmanteau words, 'econophysics’ is a strange hybrid term that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. But economists have been borrowing from scientists since the very start. In the 1700s, ...

This year’s recipient is Arne Traulsen, Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön. He is working on evolutionary game theory, an extension of classical game theory to ...

Milutin Todorovic was disturbed to learn that over 60 % of students choose a major or field of study that doesn’t align with their interests. The Glenbrook South High School senior decided to do ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher has used "econophysics" to show that under ideal circumstances free markets promote fair salaries for workers and do not support CEO compensation ...