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Editorial
Nature 441, 667 (8 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441667a; Published online 7 June 2006
Econophysicists matter
Abstract
Economics and physics are two disciplines that, contrary to widespread perceptions, have significant common agendas. Shame, then, that the professionals don't do more to recognize the fact.
After hearing a talk on the application of physics to the social sciences, a physicist in a notoriously traditional department was heard to mutter that it was all very well but it wasn't 'real physics'. It was an article of faith to him that many-body theories in physics could not be applied to animate objects.
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