An Introduction to Socio-Finance

• Main Authors: Vitting Andersen, Jørgen (Author), Nowak, Andrzej (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Economics, Mathematical.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Macroeconomics.; Economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Quantitative Finance.

This introductory text is devoted to exposing the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.   Two different levels of this sociological infl...