@article{890168,
      author = {Tusset, Gianfranco,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/890168},
      title = {From Galileo to modern economics : the Italian origins of  econophysics /},
      abstract = {Empirical laws are rare in economics. This book describes  efforts to anchor economic knowledge to invariant empirical  laws. It links 17th and 18th century Galilean monetary  economists to econophysics, a field that emerged in the  mid-1990s. This virtual journey from past to present is  charted by episodes on aggregates and empirical primacy. It  includes the virtually unknown story of 19th century  scholars who, by searching for a stricter mathematical  approach, paved the way to an 'engineering' view of  economics. Then there are celebrities like Pareto and his  first empirical law governing the distribution of wealth.  Pareto and Amoroso sparked a debate on the skewed  distribution that spanned decades, ranging from finance to  market transformations, to econophysics, with its concepts  and tools inherited from statistical physics. The last  stage of the journey goes through econophysics and the  recent gradual advances it has made, which show how its  position vis-à-vis economics has been changing.--},
      recid = {890168},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
}