Crises and Collective Socio-Economic Phenomena: Simple Models and Challenges

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 151, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 567-606

  Bouchaud, Jean Philippe ^a,b  

^a Department of research and high education   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Avalanches; Collective phenomena; Crises; Random field Ising model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875597374     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-012-0687-3     Document Type: Article

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