Social applications of two-dimensional Ising models

TL;DR

This paper reviews three socio-economic models and demonstrates that the two-dimensional Ising model produces similar results across all three, highlighting its versatility in social applications.

Contribution

It shows that the two-dimensional Ising model can effectively simulate diverse socio-economic phenomena, unifying different social models under a common framework.

Findings

Ising model replicates opinion dynamics, urban segregation, and language change.

Similar results are obtained across all three socio-economic models.

The Ising model proves versatile in social science simulations.

Abstract

I review three socio-economic models of economic opinions, urban segregation, and language change and show that the well known two-dimensional Ising model gives about the same results in each case.