Like many things in reality, this is conveniently almost Zipf distributed, which means the top element accounts for roughly 1/log N of the total and roughly sqrt(N) elements account for fully half of the total. Another win for econophysics!
May 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Like many things in reality, this is conveniently almost Zipf distributed, which means the top element accounts for roughly 1/log N of the total and roughly sqrt(N) elements account for fully half of the total. Another win for econophysics!
SFI's Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (@lhd.bsky.social) is the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG). Honoring “outstanding original contributions that use physical methods to develop a better understanding of socio-economic problems.”
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne receives Young Scientist Award
SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) has been named the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG). ...
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March 2, 2026 at 9:43 PM
SFI's Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (@lhd.bsky.social) is the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG). Honoring “outstanding original contributions that use physical methods to develop a better understanding of socio-economic problems.”
🎉 Congrats to Federico Battiston!
Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆
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Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆
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Professor Federico Battiston Receives the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- and Econophysics
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March 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎉 Congrats to Federico Battiston!
Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆
Watch the video: youtu.be/cfv0z7m7mus?...
Federico, Associate Professor at CEU DNDS & Director of the PhD Program, has won the 2025 Young Scientist Award in Socio- & Econophysics from the German Physical Society! 🏆
Watch the video: youtu.be/cfv0z7m7mus?...
The development of democratically-based policies to reduce economic throughput to an environmentally sustainable level without triggering economic crises and without excluding part of the world's population is called econophysics. A sound economic vision.
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Ecological Econophysics for Degrowth
This paper outlines a synthesis of ecological economics with econophysics and other complexity approaches to economics. Arguably, the resulting “ecological econophysics” will be scientifically sounder...
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November 28, 2024 at 12:47 PM
The development of democratically-based policies to reduce economic throughput to an environmentally sustainable level without triggering economic crises and without excluding part of the world's population is called econophysics. A sound economic vision.
www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/6/...
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Perspectives on econophysics and investment analysis including entropy.
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#quant #quantsky #finance #markets #python #investing #Investment #data #risk #entropy #physics
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#quant #quantsky #finance #markets #python #investing #Investment #data #risk #entropy #physics
Anton Vorobets (@antonvorobets)
Perspectives on econophysics for investment analysis.
Econophysics is essentially an application of physics concepts and methods to finance and economics problems.
While I fully agree that new appro...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Perspectives on econophysics and investment analysis including entropy.
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#quant #quantsky #finance #markets #python #investing #Investment #data #risk #entropy #physics
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#quant #quantsky #finance #markets #python #investing #Investment #data #risk #entropy #physics
Quite possibly the nerdiest Lunch with the FT we've ever run, featuring the inelastic markets hypothesis, 'econophysics', the Black-Scholes model's weaknesses and several drive-by shootings of economists. www.ft.com/content/6f54...
Investor Jean-Philippe Bouchaud: ‘The whole bull run is because of an influx of money’
The physicist and hedge fund manager on why the efficient markets theory is ‘all wrong’, economists with ‘mathematics envy’ — and what Camus can teach us about compromise
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September 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Quite possibly the nerdiest Lunch with the FT we've ever run, featuring the inelastic markets hypothesis, 'econophysics', the Black-Scholes model's weaknesses and several drive-by shootings of economists. www.ft.com/content/6f54...
using stat mech of Ising models in econophysics or STS is *far* more of a stretch than using it to study LLMs, diffusion models, etc, and yet those stretch cases are useful directions of research!
June 26, 2026 at 5:20 PM
using stat mech of Ising models in econophysics or STS is *far* more of a stretch than using it to study LLMs, diffusion models, etc, and yet those stretch cases are useful directions of research!
Using some insights from structuralism and classical econophysics, I put together two estimates of human compute that converge pretty well. Also connect the math back to Dunbar's social intelligence hypothesis. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/structural...
Structural Estimates of Human Computation
Some back of the envelope math
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November 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Using some insights from structuralism and classical econophysics, I put together two estimates of human compute that converge pretty well. Also connect the math back to Dunbar's social intelligence hypothesis. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/structural...
Steve Keen claimed he and his friends basically invented econophysics in a review of my book. He gave it a mid rating because it didn't cite them and didn't have any new econophysics in it.
My book is not about econophysics. It was about me as a physicist learning economics.
My book is not about econophysics. It was about me as a physicist learning economics.
please share with me the most infuriating review you've ever gotten (doesn't have to be a book review)
one the most infuriating reviews i got was from a family member, who wrote she LOVED my book, but deducted a star because she's not into comics. she's a librarian. 😭
September 16, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Steve Keen claimed he and his friends basically invented econophysics in a review of my book. He gave it a mid rating because it didn't cite them and didn't have any new econophysics in it.
My book is not about econophysics. It was about me as a physicist learning economics.
My book is not about econophysics. It was about me as a physicist learning economics.
economists, if you want to understand how some sociologists may feel about economics, just remember your reaction to econophysics.
March 23, 2026 at 11:45 PM
economists, if you want to understand how some sociologists may feel about economics, just remember your reaction to econophysics.
I had the opposite. My book has "economics" and "physicist" in the title. The reviewer, purported expert on econophysics who claimed to have read the book, assumed it was about econophysics. He was upset it didn't cite him and his friends.
(It was about me as a physicist learning economics.)
(It was about me as a physicist learning economics.)
September 16, 2024 at 1:42 PM
I had the opposite. My book has "economics" and "physicist" in the title. The reviewer, purported expert on econophysics who claimed to have read the book, assumed it was about econophysics. He was upset it didn't cite him and his friends.
(It was about me as a physicist learning economics.)
(It was about me as a physicist learning economics.)
Congratulations to Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social, UVM Professor of Computer Science and core faculty member of the Vermont Complex Systems Institute, on receiving the 2026 Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics from the German Physical Society! www.uvm.edu/cems/cs/news...
International Honor for Laurent Hébert-Dufresne | Computer Science | The University of Vermont
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February 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Congratulations to Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social, UVM Professor of Computer Science and core faculty member of the Vermont Complex Systems Institute, on receiving the 2026 Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics from the German Physical Society! www.uvm.edu/cems/cs/news...
#KeynoteSpeaker Gourab Ghoshal is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy. His research interests are in the theory and applications of Complex Networks, Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics, Computational Social Science, Econophysics, Dynamical Systems and the Origins of Life.
March 7, 2024 at 11:44 AM
#KeynoteSpeaker Gourab Ghoshal is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy. His research interests are in the theory and applications of Complex Networks, Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics, Computational Social Science, Econophysics, Dynamical Systems and the Origins of Life.
🌐 Journal of Social Physics now accepting submissions exploring the sociophysics, econophysics, and overlaps with computational social science. Share your research!
#CallForPapers #SocialPhysics #ComplexSystems
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#CallForPapers #SocialPhysics #ComplexSystems
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August 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🌐 Journal of Social Physics now accepting submissions exploring the sociophysics, econophysics, and overlaps with computational social science. Share your research!
#CallForPapers #SocialPhysics #ComplexSystems
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#CallForPapers #SocialPhysics #ComplexSystems
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"Philosophers couldn't care less" is a bit strong. Jennifer Jhun and @jamesowenweatherall.com have both written about econophysics. I know that model transfer from physics to economics is part of a new grant Catherine Herfeld has. There are others too
September 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Philosophers couldn't care less" is a bit strong. Jennifer Jhun and @jamesowenweatherall.com have both written about econophysics. I know that model transfer from physics to economics is part of a new grant Catherine Herfeld has. There are others too
took me today to realize that securities trading is just that, gambling. dressed up all nice, with stochastic modeling and econophysics. but in the end, gambling.
March 1, 2026 at 5:13 AM
took me today to realize that securities trading is just that, gambling. dressed up all nice, with stochastic modeling and econophysics. but in the end, gambling.
People often yell that the Economy is rigged, but what might that mean more precisely? More and more these days, I'm drawn to my PRX paper on the topic, "Games in Rigged Economies" #ComplexSystems #Econophysics #GameTheory
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Games in Rigged Economies
A game-theoretical model of a rigged economy predicts the emergence of cartels followed by a risk of instability as the economy becomes more complex.
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April 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
People often yell that the Economy is rigged, but what might that mean more precisely? More and more these days, I'm drawn to my PRX paper on the topic, "Games in Rigged Economies" #ComplexSystems #Econophysics #GameTheory
journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
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UVM Prof. of Computer Science, Laurent Hébert Dufresne, has been awarded the 2026 Young Scientist Award for Socio- & Econophysics! A global leader in complex systems, his research connects infectious disease modeling, network science, & ecology to answer one big question: How do things spread?
International Honor for Laurent Hébert-Dufresne | Computer Science | The University of Vermont
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February 27, 2026 at 8:46 PM
UVM Prof. of Computer Science, Laurent Hébert Dufresne, has been awarded the 2026 Young Scientist Award for Socio- & Econophysics! A global leader in complex systems, his research connects infectious disease modeling, network science, & ecology to answer one big question: How do things spread?
i wouldn’t really call econophysics a political party but i guess it is inherently political
June 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM
i wouldn’t really call econophysics a political party but i guess it is inherently political
TOP TEN LIST OF DOWNLOADED ARTICLE IN "" TRADING, ECONOPHYSICS, ECONOMETRIC AND MORE"" IN THE LAST MONTH. Article "DYNAMIC EQUATIONS OF THE ECONOMY: STOCK MARKET FORECASTING IN 'n' DIMENSIONS"-Download: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 28, 2024 at 8:23 AM
TOP TEN LIST OF DOWNLOADED ARTICLE IN "" TRADING, ECONOPHYSICS, ECONOMETRIC AND MORE"" IN THE LAST MONTH. Article "DYNAMIC EQUATIONS OF THE ECONOMY: STOCK MARKET FORECASTING IN 'n' DIMENSIONS"-Download: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Stuff coming out of this eg books.google.com/books/about/...
Laws of Chaos
A defining work of Econophysics, republished for the first time since 1983, Laws of Chaos is an attempt to construct a non-deterministic theoretical framework for the foundations of political economy....
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September 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Stuff coming out of this eg books.google.com/books/about/...
im actually curious about this! the weights themselves have a market effect. if you coupled markets like attention, what happens? this is actually a immediately explorable question in econophysics! if only i had the time to explore more
August 30, 2026 at 2:41 PM
im actually curious about this! the weights themselves have a market effect. if you coupled markets like attention, what happens? this is actually a immediately explorable question in econophysics! if only i had the time to explore more
Nearly everything we see is a derivative of useless and painful inequality. Fix that and the other things start to get fixed. Fail and we all go to hell in a handcart. We need to target maximum freedom of action for all which allows for useful inequalities - wealth Gini close to 0.5 (Econophysics)
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Nearly everything we see is a derivative of useless and painful inequality. Fix that and the other things start to get fixed. Fail and we all go to hell in a handcart. We need to target maximum freedom of action for all which allows for useful inequalities - wealth Gini close to 0.5 (Econophysics)
the nice thing is there is there is a perfect dictionary already to map softmax attention and the residual stream directly to market behavior using existing econophysics literature!
August 30, 2026 at 2:53 PM
the nice thing is there is there is a perfect dictionary already to map softmax attention and the residual stream directly to market behavior using existing econophysics literature!
My very speculative AI assisted attempt to use econophysics concepts to understand what's happening and how to fix it...
🧵 Almost everything wrong with our societies is a derivative of wealth inequality. But this isn't just politics—it's physics. Our economy has been engineered into a "Wealth Siphon" that freezes the vast majority. Here, I try to explain the physics of the trap and the blueprint to escape. #inequality
Escaping the Freeze: The Physics of the Wealth Siphon
Almost everything that is wrong in our societies is a derivative of increased wealth inequality. Here is the physics of the trap—and the blueprint to escape it.
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January 23, 2026 at 12:37 PM
My very speculative AI assisted attempt to use econophysics concepts to understand what's happening and how to fix it...