Development of Econophysics: A biased account and perspective from Kolkata

TL;DR

This paper offers a personalized historical account of econophysics' development, highlighting research achievements and recent results from Kolkata, with perspectives on future directions in the field.

Contribution

It provides a unique, autobiographical perspective on the emergence and growth of econophysics, including recent research findings from Kolkata.

Findings

Summary of key research achievements in econophysics

Recent technical research results from Kolkata

Perspectives on future research directions

Abstract

We present here a somewhat personalized account of the emergence of econophysics as an attractive research topic in physical as well as social sciences. After a rather detailed story telling about our endeavors from Kolkata, we give a brief description of the main research achievements in a simple and non-technical language. We also present briefly, in technical language, a piece of our recent research result. We conclude our paper with a brief perspective.