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2020 was a year of economic turmoil in many parts of the world — and 2021 promises much of the same. There are obvious reasons to take an interest in economics, but what else can physicists learn from it? This Collection of articles in Nature Physics and Nature Reviews Physics is part of the dialogue around this question, and serves as an update on the 2013 Focus issue in Nature Physics on complex networks in finance.