Would-be econophysicists can therefore find themselves damned from both directions: physicists don't think of the field as physics, whereas economists don't recognize it as their discipline either ...

Econophysicists view markets as far more messy and complex -- so much so that the beauty and logic of economic theory is a poor substitute.

Econophysicists Model Tax Evasion in a Country-Sized Population Manipulating social pressures could have a dramatic effect on the rates of tax avoidance, according to the new model.

Econophysicists have recently developed a network measure called DebtRank, which aims to cut through network complexity and reveal the true riskiness of any particular institution (see the Focus ...

Some econophysicists, as well as economists and politicians, suggest that the ongoing turmoil in Europe was triggered by the lingering effects of the 2008 panic that started in the United States.

In a major study, econophysicists have today identified the most powerful companies in the world based on their ability to control stock markets around the globe. it makes uncomfortable reading. … ...

Last time I talked about how economics is still not yet a real science, but how some physicists have been trying to change that. Recently, some of these so-called "econophysicists" did their ...

Facebook’s valuation which stands at anything from $65 billion to north of $100 billion. Peter Cauwels and Didier Sornette, econophysicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich ...

Facebook Vastly Overvalued, Say Econophysicists To achieve its current sky-high valuation, the social media company would have to pull off a dramatic and unlikely increase in its profit per user ...

In the report, the econophysicists claim to have devised a novel way to determine the true value of the big social media giants, such as Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, Pandora, Twitter, and Zynga.

Some econophysicists, as well as economists and politicians, suggest that the ongoing turmoil in Europe was triggered by the lingering effects of the 2008 panic that started in the United States.

Here is a weekly chart of this index. A couple of weeks ago an academic paper by some "econophysicists" appeared which asserted that a bubble in the Shanghai composite index had developed.