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Informationen zum Autor Hideaki Aoyama is Professor of Physics at Kyoto University! Japan. Yoshi Fujiwara is Research Fellow at Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR). Yuichi Ikeda is Senior Researcher in Hitachi Ltd! Hitachi Research Laboratory! Japan. Hiroshi Iyetomi is Professor of Physics at Niigata University! Japan. Wataru Souma is Associate Professor of Physics at Nihon University! Japan. Klappentext Econophysics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that takes advantage of the concepts and methods of statistical physics to analyse economic phenomena. This book expands the explanatory scope of econophysics to the real economy by using methods from statistical physics to analyse the success and failure of companies. Using large data sets of companies and income-earners in Japan and Europe, a distinguished team of researchers show how these methods allow us to analyse companies, from huge corporations to small firms, as heterogeneous agents interacting at multiple layers of complex networks. They then show how successful this approach is in explaining a wide range of recent findings relating to the dynamics of companies. With mathematics kept to a minimum, the book is not only a lively introduction to the field of econophysics but also provides fresh insights into company behaviour. Zusammenfassung Econophysics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that takes advantage of the concepts and methods of statistical physics to analyse economic phenomena. This book expands the explanatory scope of econophysics to the real economy by using methods from statistical physics to analyse the success and failure of companies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; About the authors; Foreword; Preface; Prologue; 1. New insights; 2. Size distribution; 3. Fluctuations - company growth; 4. Complex business networks; 5. Agent-based model for companies; 6. Perspectives for practical applications; 7. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index....
