Network opportunity

Nat Phys. 2013;9(3):121-123. doi: 10.1038/nphys2570. Epub 2013 Mar 1.

Abstract

Our developing scientific understanding of complex networks is being usefully applied in a wide set of financial systems. What we've learned from the 2008 crisis could be the basis of better management of the economy - and a means to avert future disaster.

Keywords: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics.