Is Economics the Next Physical Science? -- Physics Today

Wonder if this is relevant to real finance? (It appear's that Pareto's 1897 distribution was the first powerlaw.)

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http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0506086
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-9/p37.shtml
Is Economics the Next Physical Science?
An emerging body of work by physicists addressing questions of economic organization and function suggests new approaches to economics and a broadening of the scope of physics — J. Doyne Farmer, Martin Shubik, and Eric Smith

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