News tagged with econophysics
How do we support today’s Einsteins?
Is today's academic and corporate culture stifling science’s risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore? In April’s Physics World the science writer Mark Buchanan looks at those who ...
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Inequality and investment bubbles
"Money, it's a gas," says the sixties rock group Pink Floyd in their song "Money." Indeed, physics professor Victor Yakovenko is an expert in statistical physics and studies how the flow of money and the distribution ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Apr 19, 2012 |
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'Econophysics' points way to fair salaries in free market
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 practices common today.
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Shoppers' Spending Habits Follow Well-Known Economic Law
By analyzing 100 million receipts from 1,000 Japanese am/pm convenience stores, researchers have discovered a strong economic inequality among shoppers. Among their findings is that the top 25% and 2% of the ...
Oct 26, 2007 |
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A Physicist's Guide to Texas Hold 'Em
(PhysOrg.com) -- What are the odds that poker can be explained by statistical physics, much the same as a variety of other complex systems? They’re pretty good, according to physicist Clément Sire of ...
Apr 04, 2007 |
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It's a gamble: Econophysicists meld science, economics
Predicting financial markets is more of a gamble than traditional economists will admit, and making sense of such numbers is more like trying to decipher noise blasting from a loudspeaker, says one University of Houston econophysicist, ...
Nov 30, 2006 |
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Researchers use physics to analyze dynamics of bestsellers
A glowing report in The New York Times or a public relations blitz might send a book's sales soaring temporarily, but such heady buzz doesn't hold up like good old-fashioned word-of-mouth, says a group of researchers that ...
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Dec 05, 2004 |
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