Social applications of two-dimensional Ising models

Abstract

I review three socio-economic models of economic opinions, urban segregation, and language change and show that the well known two-dimensional Ising model gives about the same results in each case.

10 pages including all figures, teaching preprint for Am. J. Phys

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