Publications


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Books    Eric Smith and Harold Morowitz, The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere (Cambridge, London, 2016) Martin Shubik and Eric Smith, The Guidance of an Enterprise Economy (MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2016) Eric Smith and Supriya Krishnamurthy, Symmetry and Collective Fluctuations in Evolutionary Games (IOP Press, Bristol, 2015) Articles Hyejin Youn, Logan Sutton, Eric Smith, Cristopher Moore, Jon F. Wilkins, Ian Maddieson, William Croft Tanmoy Bhattacharya, On the universal structure of human lexical semantics, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA (2016) Daniel J. Hruschka, Simon Branford, Eric Smith, Jon Wilkins, Andrew Meade, Mark Pagel, and Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Detecting regular sound changes in linguistics as events of concerted evolution, Curr. Biol. 25 (2015) 1–9. Eric Smith and Martin Shubik, The financing of a public utility, J. P. Bourguignon et al. (eds.), Dynamics, Games and Science, CIM Series in Mathematical Sciences (Springer, Heidelberg, 2015) PDF Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith, Metabolic evolution of a deep-branching hyperthermophilic chemoautotrophic bacterium, PLoS ONE. 9:e87950 (2014) PDF Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith, The compositional and evolutionary logic of metabolism, Phys. Biol. 10:011001 (2013) PDF Eric Smith and Martin Shubik, Runs, panics and bubbles: Diamond Dybvig and Morris Shin reconsidered, Ann. Finance doi = 10.1007/s10436-013-0231-8 CFDP No. 1869. (2013) PDF Eric Smith, Duncan K. Foley, and Benjamin H. Good, Unhedgeable shocks and statistical economic equilibrium, Econ. Theory 52:187--235 (2013): DOI 10.1007/200199-011-0663-1 PDF Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith, The emergence and early evolution of biological carbon fixation, PLoS Comp. Biol. 8:e1002455 (2012) PDF Eric Smith, Supriya Krishnamurthy, Walter Fontana, and David C. Krakauer, Non-equilibrium phase transitions in biomolecular signal transduction, Phys. Rev. E 84:051917 (2011) PDF (http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4121) Ian Maddieson, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Eric Smith, and William Croft, Commentary on “Phonetic diversity supports serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa” by Quentin D. Atkinson (Science 332: 346--349 2011), Linguistic Typology 15:267--279 (2011) PDF William Croft, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Dave Kleinschmidt, Eric Smith, and T.~Florian Jaeger, Greenbergian universals, diachrony and statistical analysis, Linguistic Typology 15:433--453 (2011) PDF Eric Smith and Martin Shubik, Endogenizing the provision of money: Costs of commodity and fiat monies in relation to the value of trade, J. Math. Econ. 47:508--530 (2011) PDF Eric Smith, Large-deviation principles, stochastic effective actions, path entropies, and the structure and meaning of thermodynamic descriptions, Rep. Prog. Phys. 74: 046601 (2011) PDF Steven A Frank and Eric Smith, A Simple Derivation and Classification of Common Probability Distributions Based on Information Symmetry and Measurement Scale, J. Evol. Biol. 24:469--484 (2011) PDF Harold J. Morowitz, Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, and Eric Smith, Ligand field theory and the origin of life as an emergent feature of the periodic table of the elements, Biol. Bull. 219:1--6 (2010) PDF Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz, The autotrophic origins paradigm and small-molecule organocatalysis. Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 40:397--402 (2010) PDF Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz, Confederacy based on synthetic-pathway and bio-energetic modularity. Orig. Life Evol. Biosphere 40:467--475 (2010) PDF Steven A. Frank and D. Eric Smith, Measurement invariance, entropy, and probability. Entropy 12:289--303 (2010) PDF Eric Smith, Thermodynamics of natural selection I: Energy flow and the limits on organization. J. Theor. Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.02.010 (2008) PDF Eric Smith, Thermodynamics of natural selection II: Chemical Carnot cycles. J. Theor. Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.02.008 (2008) PDF Eric Smith, Thermodynamics of natural selection III: Landauer’s principle in computation and chemistry. J. Theor. Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.02.013 (2008) PDF Eric Smith, Quantum-classical correspondence principles for locally non-equilibrium driven systems. Phys. Rev. E 77:021109 (2008) PDF Eric Smith and Duncan K. Foley, Classical thermodynamics and economic general equilibrium theory. J. Econ. Dynamics Control 32:7--65 (2008) PDF Martin Shubik and Eric Smith, Building theories of economic process. Complexity 14:77--92 (2008) PDF Harold J. Morowitz and Eric Smith, Energy flow and the organization of life. Complexity 13:51--59 (2007) PDF Shelley D. Copley, Eric Smith, and Harold J. Morowitz, The origin of the RNA world: Co-evolution of genes and metabolism. Bioorganic Chemistry 35:430--443 (2007) PDF Supriya Krishnamurthy, Eric Smith, David C. Krakauer, and Walter Fontana, The stochastic behavior of a molecular switching circuit with feedback. Biology Direct 2:13 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-2-13 (2007) PDF Eric Smith, Intensive entropy? Complexity 12:11--13 (2007) PDF Eric Smith, Doi-Peliti methods for non-commuting observables. (2006) (SFI working paper #06-11-040) PDF Martin Shubik and Eric Smith, Structure, clearinghouses, and symmetry. Econ. Theory 30:587--597 (2006) PDF Guy A. Hoelzer, John W. Pepper, and Eric Smith, On the logical relationship between natural selection and self-organization. J. Evol. Biol. 19:1785--1794 (2006) PDF Eric Smith, Thermodynamic dual structure of linear-dissipative driven systems. Phys. Rev. E 72:36130(2005) PDF. Shelley D. Copley, Eric Smith, and Harold J. Morowitz, A mechanism for the association of amino acids with their codons and the origin of the genetic code. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 102:4442--4447(2005) PDF Eric Smith and Martin Shubik, Strategic freedom, constraint, and symmetry in one-period markets with cash and credit payment. Econ. Theory 25:513--551 (2005) PDF Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz, Universality in intermediary metabolism. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 101:13168--13173 (2004) PDF Martin Shubik and Eric Smith, The physics of time and dimension in the economics of financial control. Physica A 340:656--667 (2004) (SFI working paper #03-12-069) PDF Eric Smith, The institutional foundation of market control. in International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Control Technologies (Post-conference issue) 6:458--463 (Orlando, FL. Int.~Inst.~Informatics and Systemics, 2004) Eric Smith, Self-organization from structural refrigeration. Phys. Rev. E 68:046114 (2003) PDF Marcus G. Daniels, J. Doyne Farmer, Giulia Iori, and Eric Smith, Quantitative model of price diffusion and market friction based on trading as a mechanistic random process. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90:108102 (2003) PDF Eric Smith, J. Doyne Farmer, Lászó Gillemot, and Supriya Krishnamurthy, Statistical theory of the continuous double auction. Quant. Finance 3:481--514 (2003) http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210475 Giulia Iori, Marcus G. Daniels, J. Doyne Farmer, Lászó Gillemot, Supriya Krishnamurthy, and Eric Smith, An analysis of price impact function in order-driven markets. Physica A 324:146--151 (2003) Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Eric Smith, and Ricard V. Solé, Evolving protein interaction networks through gene duplication. J. Theor. Biol. 222:199--210 (2003) PDF Ricard V. Solé, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Eric Smith, and Thomas Kepler, A model of large-scale proteome evolution. Adv. Complex Systems 5:43--54 (2002) PDF Nicholas P. Chotiros, Eric Smith, and James N. Piper, Refraction and scattering into a sandy ocean sediment in the 30 -- 40 kHz band. IEEE J. Ocean Eng. 27:362 (2002) Eric Smith, Resonant scattering and localization in heterogeneous Biot media. Phys. Rev. B 64:134202 (2001) PDF Eric Smith, Renormalization of quenched randomness in Biot theory. Phys. Rev. B 64:134203 (2001) PDF Eric Smith and James A. TenCate, Sensitive determination of nonlinear properties of Berea sandstone at low strains. Geophys. Res. Lett. 27:1985-1988 (2000) James A. TenCate, Eric Smith, and Robert A. Guyer, Universal slow dynamics in granular solids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85:1020--1023 (2000) PDF Eric Smith, Statistical mechanics of self-driven Carnot cycles. Phys. Rev. E 60:3633--3645 (1999) PDF Eric Smith, Localization in non-uniform media: exponential decay of the late-time Ginzburg-Landau impulse response. Phys. Rev. B 58:5346--5366 (1998) PDF Eric Smith, Carnot’s theorem as Noether’s theorem for thermoacoustic engines. Phys. Rev. E 58:2818--2832 (1998) PDF Eric Smith, Scattering of interface waves from pointlike obstacles. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103:2344 (1998) Eric Smith, Preston S. Wilson, Fred W. Bacon, Jason F. Manning, John A. Behrens, and Thomas G. Muir, Measurement and localization of interface wave reflections from a buried target. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103:2333 (1998) Eric Smith, Benchmarking virtual backscatter in parabolic evolution. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102:2626 (1997) Eric Smith, Organization of infrared effects in the resonating-valence-bond gauge theory. Phys. Rev. B 51:12,969--12,974 (1995) PDF Eric Smith, Trivial spectrum of free 1+1 light-cone strings. Phys. Lett. B 305:344 (1993) Eric Smith and Joseph G. Polchinski, Duality survives time dependence. Phys. Lett. B 236:59 (1991) Essays and semipopular James Trefil, Harold J. Morowitz, and Eric Smith, The Origin of LIfe, American Scientist 97:206--213 PDF Harold J. Morowitz, Eric Smith, and Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, Selfish metabolism. Complexity 14:7--9 (2009) PDF Eric Smith, Before Darwin, The Scientist 22:32--38 (2008) Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, Harold J. Morowitz, and Eric Smith, Essential amino acids, from LUCA to Lucy. Complexity 13:8--9 (2008) PDF Lokesh Joshi, Eric Smith , and Harold J. Morowitz, Glycobiology: the sweet language of life, complexity, and morphogenesis. Complexity 12:9--10 (2007) Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz, and Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, Experimental search for the minimal organisms and the last universal common ancestor. Complexity 12:11--12(2007) PDF Harold J. Morowitz, Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, and Eric Smith, The swiss army knife of biological catalysis. Complexity 11:9--10 (2006) PDF Harold J. Morowitz, Vijayasarathy Srinivasan, Shelley D. Copley, and Eric Smith, The simplest enzyme revisited. Complexity 10:12--13 (2005) PDF J. Doyne Farmer, Martin Shubik, and Eric Smith, Is economics the next physical science? Physics Today 58:37--42 (2005) PDF Book chapters (and dissertation) Eric Smith, Emergent order in processes: the interplay of complexity, robustness, correlation, and hierarchy in the biosphere. for The self-organizing universe: cosmology, biology, and the rise of complexity, Charles Lineweaver, Paul Davies, and Michael Ruse eds. (Cambridge, MA 2012. Cambridge U.~Press, in press) Shelley D. Copley, Eric Smith, and Harold J. Morowitz, The emergence of sparse metabolic networks, in Abiogenesis and the origins of life, Michael, Russell, ed. (Cosmo. Sci. Publishers, Cambridge, MA, 2010) p.175--191 Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz, and Shelley D. Copley, Core metabolism as a self-organizing system. in Steen Rasmussen, Norman Packard, and Marc Bedau, editors, Protocells: Bridging nonliving and living matter (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2009), p. 433--460 Eric Smith and Harold J. Morowitz, Framing the question of fine-tuning for intermediary metabolism. in John D. Barrow, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen J. Freeland, and Charles L. Harper, editors, Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning (Cambridge U. Press, San Francisco, CA., 2007). p. 384--420 Eric Smith, Field theory problems in quantum gravity, string theory, and solid state physics. PhD thesis, (U. T. Austin, 1994) Edited volumes or special editions Martin Shubik and Eric Smith, editors, Complexity 14(3) (January/February 2009) Econophysics: present and future (editors’ introduction) 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