Is Economics the Next Physical Science?
- 1 September 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 58 (9) , 37-42
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2117821
Abstract
An emerging body of work by physicists addressing questions of economic organization and function suggests new approaches to economics and a broadening of the scope of physics.Keywords
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