I hope that you are all well and braving the great confinement, although I fear not. I shall be writing more on that theme very soon. But life must go on:
Three years ago I began a dialogue with my colleagues at the New School and beyond on the role of statistical physics in the social sciences, and especially in economics (see previous blog post). A new paper, forthcoming in a special collection of the European Physics Journal Special Topics, edited by Ellis Scharfenaker and Jangho Yang, and available here, reflects my current cumulative thinking on the subject.