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Nature Physics 5, 776 (1 November 2009) | doi:10.1038/nphys1443

Waiting for the maths

Mark Buchanan

Economics is widely regarded as the queen of the social sciences. A few years ago, in his best selling book The End of History, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama loosely estimated that today's dominant 'neo-classical' theory of economics is, perhaps, 80% correct.