Sociophysics: a personal testimony

By Serge Galam. 2004

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The origins of Sociophysics are discussed from a personal testimony. I trace back its history to the late 1970s. My 20 years of activities and research to establish and promote the field are reviewed. In particular, the conflicting nature of Sociophysics with the physics community is revealed from my own experience. Recent presentations of a supposed natural growth from Social Sciences are criticized.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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The Emergence of Econophysics: A New Approach in Modern Financial Theory (2013, background): “It is no accident, then, that the characteristics of econophysics mentioned by Dean Rickles (2007, 952) all relate to finance. and Shapir 1982), democratic structures (Galam 1986), and elections (Galam 2004; Ferreira and Dionísio 2008).”
Towards a mathematical theory of complex socio-economical systems by functional subsystems representation (2008, methodology): “Methods derived from statistical mechanics are used to analyse political, economical, and social competitions phenomena [17], [18], [21], [29].”
Colloquium: Statistical mechanics of money, wealth, and income (2009, background): “Another direction related to econophysics has been advocated by the theoretical physicist Serge Galam since early 1980 under the name of sociophysics (Galam, 2004), with the first appearance of the term by Galam et al. (1982).”
SOCIOPHYSICS: A REVIEW OF GALAM MODELS (2008, background): “A personal testimony about sociophysics can be found in [69].”