Economic Logic

It is every physicist's dream to find a formula so powerful that it can explain everything (and carry the inventor's name). Such hop...

Physicists believe that social sciences can only be described as true sciences if on can figure out some laws that always apply, without exc...

Everyone is familiar with homo œconomicus , the greedy economic agent that brings an economy to its most efficient allocation under perfect ...

It has been a while since I last discussed a paper from econophysics, where it appears there is a substantial literature trying to describe ...

It has been a while since we last discussed then latest developments in econophysics, the field trying to blend the methods of Physics (and ...

It is sometimes saddening to see how Economics is currently being criticized for its failure to predict this and that. While at least econom...

Many scientists dream of finding a unified theory of something, a theory that would encompass others and explain, with a few equations, a la...

I have highlighted in the past some exceptionally bad examples of forays of physicists into Economics (search for "Econophysics")....

I have described here some of the outlandish forays of physicists into Economics, where they try to use concepts from their discipline with ...

Sorry to report a second time in the same week about Econophysics ( previous one here ), but this paper is just too bizarre for me not to me...

Other social scientists do not like when economists venture into their turf and challenge established methodology. We economists, of course,...

I have criticized a number of times Econophysics as a rather naive venture of physicists into Economics, where there is too much focus on ...