From Galileo to Modern Economics

Gianfranco Tusset is Associate Professor in History of Economic Thought, University of Padua, Italy.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Galilean economics.- 3. Engineering economics.- 4. Wealth distribution.- 5. The dynamics of aggregates.- 6. Asset pricing dynamics.- 7. Topological dynamics.- 8. Moving on to econophysics.- 9. Epilogue.

“Tusset’s book is a thought-provoking study on the origins and development of the peculiar discipline of econophysics … . This may be the most relevant lesson for econophysicists to take home from this interesting book.” (Enrico Petracca, History of Economic Thought and Policy, Vol. 2, 2019)