New perspectives in the equilibrium statistical mechanics approach to social and economic sciences

In this chapter we review some recent development in the mathematical modeling of quantitative sociology by means of statistical mechanics. After a short pedagogical introduction to static and dynamic properties of many body systems, we develop a theory for particle (agents) interactions on random graph.

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