This short review presents a selected history of the mutual fertilization between physics and
economics—from Isaac Newton and Adam Smith to the present. The fundamentally different …

This paper proposes a systems approach to the theory of perception and learning in
populations composed of many living entities. Starting from a phenomenological description …

Financial and economic history is strewn with bubbles and crashes, booms and busts, crises
and upheavals of all sorts. Understanding the origin of these events is arguably one of the …

Two Ising models are presented, of land-use induced by conservation payment schemes.
Such payments reward the application of conservation measures on private land to …

As a schematic model of the complexity economic agents are confronted with, we introduce
the “Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game,” a discrete time binary choice model inspired from mean …

We study the statistics of turnout rates and results of the French elections since 1992. We
find that the distribution of turnout rates across towns is surprisingly stable over time. The …

To accommodate the diverse users demands for consumer products, enterprises need to
design and develop different lines of products according to different groups of users …

In this paper1 we introduce a family of models to describe the spatio-temporal dynamics of
criminal activity. It is argued here that with a minimal set of mechanisms corresponding to …

This paper deals with the development of a mathematical theory for complex socio-
economical systems. The approach is based on the methods of the mathematical kinetic …

This research proposes a conceptual framework for determining the adoption trajectory of
information diffusion in connective action campaigns. This approach reveals whether an …