Three Risky Decades: A Time for Econophysics?

Summary: Over the past three decades, physicists have applied their methods to study problems initiated by economists, leading to the emergence of 'econophysics' as a hybrid area between economics and physics. The groundwork for the development of econophysics before the 1990s may have been laid out by the active role played by the Santa Fe Institute in promoting interdisciplinary research on complexity in the 1980s.