Selected Topics of Social Physics: Nonequilibrium Systems

Abstract

This paper is devoted to nonequilibrium systems in the physics approach to social systems. Equilibrium systems have been considered in the recenly published first part of the review. The style of the paper combines the features of a tutorial and a review, which, from one side, makes it simpler to read for nonspecialists aiming at grasping the basics of social physics, and from the other side, describes several rather recent original models containing new ideas that could be of interest to experienced researchers in the field.

Keywords

• dynamical systems
• punctuated evolution
• symbiosis in biological and social systems
• periodic financial bubbles
• utility-rate equations
• market dynamics