Barkley wrote:

>>Much of this work is actually being done by physicists, now part of the
so-called
"econophysics" movement, although sometimes the ignorance of economics by
these people can be annoying, especially when they start intoning about how
they
have solved all the problems of economics, when they have not read much
literature
and are talking about non-problems, although there seems to be less of this
sort of
thing going on these days.<<


Replace the word "physicists" with "engineers" or "mathameticians"
and you've pretty much recreated much of the history of economics over
the last 150 years.  Or am I wrong?

Greg Ransom