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Pattern and Repertoire in History
The aim of this book is to analyze clusters of similar "elementary" occurrences that serve as the building blocks of more global events. Making connections between seemingly unrelated case studies, Roehner and Syme apply scientific methodology to the analysis of history. Their book identifies the recurring patterns of behavior that shape the histories of different countries separated by vast stretches of time and space. Taking advantage of a broad wealth of historical evidence, the authors decipher what may be seen as a kind of genetic code of history.
Patterns of Speculation
The main objective of this 2002 book is to show that behind the bewildering diversity of historical speculative episodes it is possible to find hidden regularities, thus preparing the way for a unified theory of market speculation. Speculative bubbles require the study of various episodes in order for a comparative perspective to be obtained and the analysis developed in this book follows a few simple but unconventional ideas. Investors are assumed to exhibit the same basic behavior during speculative episodes whether they trade stocks, real estate, or postage stamps. The author demonstrates how some of the basic concepts of dynamical system theory, such as the notions of impulse response, reaction times and frequency analysis, play an instrumental role in describing and predicting speculative behavior. This book will serve as a useful introduction for students of econophysics, and readers with a general interest in economics as seen from the perspective of physics.
Driving Forces in Physical, Biological and Socio-economic Phenomena
a multi-disciplinary 2007 book on network theory for graduate students and researchers in sociology and econophysics.
Hidden Collective Factors in Speculative Trading
This book contains a unified mathematical theory of speculation. Besides analysing stock markets, the book considers a wide range of speculative markets such as: real estate, commodities, postage-stamps, and antiquarian books. Various regularities are discussed. For instance, during a speculative episode, the price of expensive items increases more than the price of less expensive items. Such regularities pave the way for a mathematical theory of speculation. Being mainly empirical, the book is easy to read and does not require technical prerequisites in finance, economics or mathematics.
Theory of Markets
Book titles, because they are compromises between concision and precision, provide but an approximate description of real content. For this book an al ternative and more comprehensive title would be: An investigation of spatial arbitrage as an introduction to the theory of commodity markets: trade and space-time patterns of price fluctuations. In this title, both the specificities and the limitations of our approach are emphasized. Firstly, our approach con centrates on the basic mechanisms of spatial arbitrage, leaving aside a number of accessory facets of international trade such as the impact of quotas or of ex change rates. Secondly, for the sake of simplicity we restrict ourselves to si...
Separatism and Integration
Our understanding of separatist movements is challenged daily by news reports from places as varied as India, Indonesia, Kosovo, and Quebec. This book gives readers a new insight into these movements by providing a thorough analysis of separatism from a historical and comparative perspective. It also studies the conditions, which ensure the success of integration and of melting-pot processes, in particular at the language level.
Cohésion sociale
Comment nos sociétés résistent aux changements ? Quelle est cette cohésion qui assure leur pérennité dans l’histoire ? Bertrand Roehner l’observe d’abord dans des événements tests comme la destruction des tours de Manhattan (2001), dans des catastrophes comme le tremblement de terre de Tokyo (1923), des émeutes de rejet comme à Aigues-Mortes en France (1893) ou de protestation comme à Brixton en Angleterre (1981), ou encore dans la résistance à une occupation étrangère comme en France (1940). Il la mesure ensuite aux réactions du corps social, par exemple au nombre de temples hindous brûlés après la destruction d’une mosquée en Inde (1992). Cet essai montre ainsi que les méthodes de la physique peuvent féconder les sciences sociales. Bertrand Roehner est membre du laboratoire de physique théorique de l’université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie-Paris-VII. Il a notamment publié Theory of Markets chez Springer, Application of Physics in Economic Modelling et Patterns and Repertoire à Harvard University Press.
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