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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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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The Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University is looking for hiring up to five highly qualified postdocs to be part of an ambitious interdisciplinary research program on modeling segregation processes. The program is directed by Peter Hedström and includes a group of researchers with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds....
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca offers a multidisciplinary PhD program that integrates scientific competences of economics, engineering, computer science, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, history and sciences of cultural heritage. It offers a unique and characteristic patrimony of competences within the broad framework of the analysis and management of a plurality of systems. The three year program is articulated in curricula....
The University of Florida is offering a new tenure-track faculty position in “Biocomplexity Engineering” in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department (see online posting). We seek candidates to conduct a research/teaching program focused on modeling and analysis of complex biological systems with expertise including data analysis, dynamic systems modeling, and theoretical development. We seek candidates with strong disciplinary training and ability to collaborate in cross-disciplinary research/teaching.
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The Faculty of Economics, Business Administration, and Information Technology of the University of Zurich invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Network Science. Applications are invited for a non-tenure track assistant professorship position in network science with focus on business networks, starting 2015. Candidates are required to hold a Ph.D. either in economics, management, social sciences, computer sciences, or natural sciences, and are expected to conduct high-quality research in business related network science....
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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