A Purdue University researcher has used "econophysics" to show that under ideal circumstances free markets promote fair salaries for workers and do not support CEO compensation practices common today.

There's a fun little movement to insist that physicists have some major contributions that they can make to economics. And it's most certainly true that both subjects use vast amounts of difficult ...

The modern trend for physicists to work on problems in finance and economics began in the early 1990s and has gained momentum ever since. In the past few years, however, this field of 'econophysics' ...

Like many portmanteau words, 'econophysics’ is a strange hybrid term that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. But economists have been borrowing from scientists since the very start. In the 1700s, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher has used "econophysics" to show that under ideal circumstances free markets promote fair salaries for workers and do not support CEO compensation ...

A researcher has used "econophysics" to show that under ideal circumstances free markets promote fair salaries for workers and do not support excessive CEO compensation practices common today. The ...