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Guest Commentary by Paul Ormerod, Author of 'Butterfly Economics'. Econophysics: Achievements, Dangers and Challenges

Paul Ormerod (06 September 2002)

Econophysics as a concept has now been around for several years. Conferences are starting to be held in the name of the discipline -- the Bali jamboree being the latest example. Time for an economist's opinion on the ADC of econophysics: its achievements to date, the potential dangers faced by physicists coming into economics, and the challenges if econophysics is to make a decisive impact on economics. ...

A beautiful piece of Economics got Nobel!

Yi-Cheng Zhang (01 October 2001)

Last week Bank of Sweden awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to three economists George Akerlof et al.. While in the past the economics prizes are hardly intelligeable to the outsiders of the profession, the work started by George Akerlof is so simple and beautiful as well as practical that I cannot recommend too highly for physicists to have a look. ...

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Conference Report: International Conference on Econophysics (ICE) [URL]

posted by bobo, 24 March 2011

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Call for papers: “Econophysics, New Economy and Complexity” International Conference “ENEC – 2011” Invitation and Call for papers

posted by Anonymous, 14 February 2011

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Call for papers: International Conference on Econophysics (ICE) KAVALA - GREECE [URL]

posted by mhanias, 11 February 2011

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Current & future events

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25 Jun 18 - Beg Rohu Summer School 2018
06 Aug 18 - Summer course on "Change Management and Evolutionary Theory"
01 Sep 18 - Mediterranean School of Complex Network
23 Sep 18 - Complex Systems Conference 2018
11 Dec 18 - COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018

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Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Data Science [URL]

posted by preis, 08 May 2014

We are seeking to recruit a creative and highly motivated prospective PhD student who is fascinated by the relationship between information flow on the Internet and real world behaviour, to work with Tobias Preis and Suzy Moat....

POSTDOCS IN COMPLEX NETWORKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA [URL]

posted by marian.serrano, 23 October 2013

MAPPING COMPLEXITY PROJECT We invite applications for a Post-doctoral Research Associate position (1+1 years) in Network Science-Mapping Complexity at the University of Barcelona (Spain). The successful candidate will be required to join us in the investigation of the theoretical foundations of complex networks embedded in hidden metric spaces to get insights into the connection between the structure and function of complex systems. She/he will also collaborate in mapping real complex systems in different domains with a focus on biology, economy, and sociotechnology....

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITIONS IN COMPLEX NETWORKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA [URL]

posted by marian.serrano, 23 October 2013

Research Scientists: Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance: Expectations, Constraints, and Interaction of Agents [URL]

posted by mraddant, 18 October 2013

The Institute for Quantitative Business and Economics Research (QBER) and the Institute of Economics at Kiel University are seeking to fill two positions for Research Scientists (either at doctoral student level with a 2/3 position on German public pay scale E13 or as post doctoral researcher with a full position on German public pay scale E 14) to contribute to the work within a new research project “Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance: Expectations, Constraints, and Interaction of Agents” funded by the European Commission....

Two positions for Doctoral Students, Computational Economics, University Jaume I of Castellón (Spain) [URL]

posted by mraddant, 23 July 2013

The Bank of Spain Chair in Computational Economics at the Economics Department of the University Jaume I of Castellón (Spain), headed by Professor Thomas Lux, is seeking to fill two positions for Doctoral Students. One position will be focused on project on “Role of Trust and Network on Systemic Risk in the Banking System”. The project investigates the structure and development of linkages within the financial sector, combining a network-based approach from the natural sciences with economic analysis....