“Maxwell, and then Boltzmann, and then... J. Willard Gibbs... expended enormous intellectual effort in devising... {{w|statistical mechanics}}, or... {{w|statistical physics}}. The uses... extend far beyond gases... describing electric and magnetic interactions, chemical reactions, phase transitions... and all other manner of exchanges of matter and energy.The success... has driven the belief among many physicists that it could be applied with similar success to society. ...[E]verything from the flow of funds in the stock market to the flow of traffic on interstate highways ...”

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