Econophysics and Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques

The combined efforts of the Physicists and the Economists in recent years in analyzing and modelling various dynamic phenomena in monetary and social systems have led to encouraging developments, generally classified under the title of Econophysics. These

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New Economic Windows Series Editors M ARISA FAGGINI , M AURO G ALLEGATI , A LAN K IRMAN

Series Editorial Board Jaime Gil Aluja Departament d’Economia i Organitzaci´o d’Empreses, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Fortunato Arecchi Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit`a degli Studi di Firenze and INOA, Italy

David Colander Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, USA

Richard H. Day Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Steve Keen School of Economics and Finance, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Marji Lines Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Universit`a degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Thomas Lux Department of Economics, University of Kiel, Germany

Alfredo Medio Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche,Universit`a degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Paul Ormerod Directors of Environment Business-Volterra Consulting, London, UK

Peter Richmond School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

J. Barkley Rosser Department of Economics, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA

Sorin Solomon Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Pietro Terna Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Finanziarie, Universit`a degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Nicolas Vriend Department of Economics, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Lotfi Zadeh Computer Science Division, University of California Berkeley, USA

Editorial Assistant: Anna Parziale Dipartimento di Studi Economici, Universit`a degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”, Italy

Banasri Basu · Bikas K. Chakrabarti Satya R. Chakravarty · Kausik Gangopadhyay Editors

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Editors Banasri Basu Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata 700108 India

Satya R. Chakravarty Economic Research Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata 700108 India

Bikas K. Chakrabarti Centre for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Kolkata 700064 India and Economic Research Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata 700108 India Kausik Gangopadhyay Economic Research Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata 700108 India Presently at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode Kozhikode 673570 India

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