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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

Received 11 December 2003

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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.