A Brief History of Economics: An Outsider's Account
Bikas K Chakrabarti
TL;DR
This paper provides a concise overview of the evolution of key economic ideas from the perspective of a physicist, highlighting interdisciplinary insights and historical developments in economics.
Contribution
It offers a unique outsider's perspective on economic history, integrating physics viewpoints to reinterpret economic concepts and their development.
Findings
Highlights the interdisciplinary nature of economic ideas
Connects physics and economics perspectives
Summarizes key historical milestones in economics
Abstract
A dangerously brief history of the developments of the main ideas in economics, as observed by a physicist, is given. This was published in 'Econophysics of Stock and Other Markets', Eds. A. Chatterjee, B. K. Chakrabarti, New Economic Windows Series, Springer, Milan, 2006, pp~219-224.
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