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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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Call for papers: To fix government, call in the geeks

posted by ss786k0, 26 March 2012

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Announcement: Interview with Emanuel Derman [URL]

posted by shollos, 26 October 2011

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

posted by bobo, 24 March 2011

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35 Scholarships - 2015/16 PhD Program in Computer Science and Systems Engineering (CSSE) at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca [URL]

posted by maria.mateos, 24 March 2015

2015/16 PhD program in Computer Science and Systems Engineering (CSSE) at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca Deadline for applications – June 29th 2015, 6 pm Italian time To apply: www.imtlucca.it/phd/prospective/application ...

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 ...

One Professor Position and One Associate Professor Position

posted by liaohao, 21 October 2014

~~***************************************************************************** Informal Call for One Professor Position and One Associate Professor Position *****************************************************************************...

Research Associate - Financial Risk and Networks [URL]

posted by pafiedor, 18 October 2014

We are looking to recruit a Research Associate to work at the Centre for Risk Studies at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School; a multidisciplinary research centre of excellence for the study of the management of economic and societal risks. Based in central Cambridge the Centre's focus is in the analysis, assessment, and mitigation of global risk by political, business and individual decision makers....

Post-doctoral fellowships in quantitative finance [URL]

posted by dianewilcox, 09 October 2014

Two Postdoctoral Fellowships are available at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for research in areas related to: market micro-structure and order-book dynamics, machine learning in finance, cluster analysis, ...

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