Econophysics as conceived by Meghnad Saha
General Finance
2019-01-01 v1
Abstract
We trace the initiative by Professor Meghnad Saha to develop a (statistical) physics model of market economy and his search for the mechanism to constrain the entropy maximized width of the income distribution in a society such that the spread of inequality can be minimized.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.09279,
title = {Econophysics as conceived by Meghnad Saha},
author = {Bikas K. Chakrabarti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.09279},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
9 pages, 1 figure (to be published in Spl. issue on Prof. M. N. Saha in Science & Culture)