Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume 2004 (2004), Issue 1, Pages 91-99
doi:10.1155/S1026022604312045

Physics and the foundations of economic science: comments in memory of Ilya Prigogine

Richard H. Day

Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-0253, CA, USA

Abstract

This paper discusses how the concepts of nonlinearity, discrete dynamics, chaos, and emergent order that Ilya Prigogine advanced correspond to similar ideas involved in the adaptive, evolutionary branch of economics.