https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60214-8
Regular Article
Some past and present challenges of econophysics
1 Center for Network Science and Department of Economics, Central European University, Nádor 9, H-1051, Budapest, Hungary
2 Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 18, I-90128, Palermo, Italy
a e-mail: rn.mantegna@gmail.com
Received: 8 July 2016
Revised: 15 September 2016
Published online: 22 December 2016
We discuss the cultural background that was shared by some of the first econophysicists when they started to work on economic and financial problems with methods and tools of statistical physics. In particular we discuss about the role of stylized facts and statistical physical laws in economics and statistical physics respectively. As an example of the problems and potentials associated with the interaction of different communities of scholars dealing with problems observed in economic and financial systems we briefly discuss the development and the perspectives of the use of tools and concepts of networks in econophysics, economics and finance.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2016
