Articles and presentations about physics of society by Philip Ball, freelance science writer and consultant editor for the international scientific journal Nature...

PHYSICS OF SOCIETY

A selection of articles and presentations about physics of society by Philip Ball

"Culture crash" a review of the state of econophysics published in Nature 441, 686 (2006) [pdf available for download]

BBC - Radio 4 - The Material World 12/02/2004
Philip discusses his book Critical Mass with science presenter Quentin
Cooper and economist Paul Ormerod.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radi.../thematerialworld_20040212.shtml

"The physical modelling of human social systems" a review in ComPlexUs 1, 190, published November 2004. [pdf available for download]

The physics of society: a talk delivered at the London School of Economics, March 2003.
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The physical modelling of society - a historical perspective: a talk presented at Messina, Sicily (2001) and subsequently published in Physica A 314, 1-14 (2002).
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