Ask a Question

Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?

Applications of statistical mechanics to economics: entropic origin of the probability distributions of money, income, and energy consumption

Applications of statistical mechanics to economics: entropic origin of the probability distributions of money, income, and energy consumption

Although I am a theoretical physicist, I have been always interested in economics and, in particular, in applications of statistical physics to economics. These ideas first occurred to me when I was an undergraduate student at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute in Russia and studied statistical physics for the first time. …