Ising model, econophysics and analogies

Econophysics emerged in the 1990s by importing statistical physics into economics and finance. Such extension of physics to another context generated a lot of epistemological debates and although it this transfer appears to be internally (disciplinary) justified, there exist a number of works questioning the justification of such extension of physics in economics\finance. This article aims at analysing how econophysicists implicitly promote a Duhemian way of perceiving scientific research by expanding their work into economics.