From Galileo to Modern Economics The Italian Origins of Econophysics /

• Main Author: Tusset, Gianfranco (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Economic history.; Economic theory.; Finance.; Mathematical physics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Finance, general.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

Empirical laws are rare in economics. This book describes efforts to anchor economic knowledge to invariant empirical laws. It links 17th and 18th century Galilean monetary economists to econophysics, a field that emerged in the mid-1990s. This virtual journey from past to present is charted by epis...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Galilean economics
• 3. Engineering economics
• 4. Wealth distribution
• 5. The dynamics of aggregates
• 6. Asset pricing dynamics
• 7. Topological dynamics
• 8. Moving on to econophysics
• 9. Epilogue.