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Dirk Helbing (18 September 2013)

The Internet and Social Media change our way of decision-making. We are no longer the independent decision makers we used to be. Instead, we have become networked minds, social decision-makers, more than ever before. This has several fundamental implications. First of all, our economic theories must change, and second, our economic institutions must be adapted to support the social decision-maker, the "homo socialis", rather be tailored to the perfect egoist, known as "homo economicus". ...

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Fribourg team (10 June 2013)

The EU-funded project QLectives for which the Econophysics Forum has been an important living lab is now coming to its end. Within the project, we prepared an updated version of the web site which features a new reputation system, improved user functionality, and new design. We believe that the new web site will serve the community well. ...

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Announcement: The Como Lake School on Advances in Complex Systems open for applications [URL]

posted by matus, 18 December 2014

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Call for papers: The First Workshop on Paradigms for Control in Social Systems [URL]

posted by matus, 18 December 2014

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Call for papers: Call for paper for WEHIA 2015 [URL]

posted by matus, 18 December 2014

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Current & future events

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16 Feb 15 - 2015 NTU-Warwick Winter School: Introduction to Complexity Science
15 Mar 15 - DPG Spring Meeting
08 Apr 15 - NetMob 2015
21 May 15 - The 20th Annual Workshop on the Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA)
29 Jun 15 - Lake Como School of Advanced Studies

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Ph.D. Scholarships at the Cologne Graduate School of Management, Economics and Social Sciences [URL]

posted by matus, 14 January 2015

The Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology is looking for talented and ambitious students who have a Master’s degree (or a national equivalent, e.g. University Diploma, German Magister, Swiss Linzenziat) in the field of sociology, social policy, or social and economic psychology. Please inform yourself about the Institute’s and its professors’ research agenda (http://www.iss-wiso.uni-koeln.de/) and apply for one of the scholarships of the Cologne Graduate School (CGS) at our faculty....

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Doctoral Fellowships in Economic Sociology and Political Economy [URL]

posted by matus, 03 December 2014

The International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), conducted jointly by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the University of Cologne, invites excellent candidates to apply for its doctoral program....

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Postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies [URL]

posted by matus, 27 November 2014

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) provides an attractive research environment for talented postdoctoral fellows. It offers up to five postdoctoral fellowships a year to researchers of all nationalities. Fellowships are awarded for one year with an option to extend for a second year under certain conditions. During their tenure, fellows are expected to reside in Cologne and participate in the intellectual life of the institute....

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PhD program in network science at the Central European University

posted by matus, 18 November 2014

Central European University is an English-language, graduate university located in Budapest, Hungary. An international university with students from some 100 countries and faculty from more than 40, CEU offers small, seminar-style courses and a student/faculty ratio of 7:1. CEU is accredited in the United States and Hungary....

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Doctoral Program in Network Science [URL]

posted by liaohao, 18 November 2014

Central European University (CEU) proudly announces the launching of its Doctoral Program in Network Science. Application deadline is February 1, 2015. For more details see cns.ceu.hu ...

Latest Blogs

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Interference of the budgetary risks (Интерференция бюджетных рисков)

posted by valgam, 07 October 2014

This blog will speak about physics of the budgetary risks. Keywords - the wave theory of risks, coherence, an interference of risks, etc....

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Market price – is it economic or sociological concept?

posted by Gontis, 27 July 2014

This text follows up our recent article „Consentaneous Agent-Based and Stochastic Model of the Financial Markets“ published in open access interdisciplinary journal PLoS ONE [1]. This article is a result of the ongoing research at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius...

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Petition on modern economics

posted by StefanoBalietti, 07 October 2013

It might be worth reading it https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/offener-brief-an-die-wirtschaftsfakultaet-der-uzh-mitdenken-statt-mitlaufen-in-der-oekonomik...

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Interested in a Degree in Physics applied to economics and Finance?

posted by Raio, 27 July 2013

Anyone interested in econophysics should look for complex systems programs....

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Has anyone some experience in getting necessary funds to present a paper at a Conference?

posted by ovidiu69, 18 July 2013

Recently a paper of mine was selected for presentation at 2-nd International Econophysics Conference that will be held in Greece, in the fall. The paper emphasize with an extension of quantum tunneling theory in financial markets and its findings are important for market practitioners, helping them to correctly timing the market....

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On the Modular Dynamics of Financial Market Networks

Filipi N. Silva, Cesar H. Comin, Thomas K. DM. Peron, Francisco A. Rodrigues, Cheng Ye, Richard...