Samuelson attempted to develop a sort of thermodynamics of economics. As far as I can tell it was a miserable failure.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Foundations_of_Economic_Analysis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Foundations_of_Economic_Analys...</a><p>I&#x27;m a fan of using physics models for predicting behavior of large groups of people, but economics .... they do occasionally come up with nice statistical tools. Sort of like psychological researchers; those fellows whose papers can only be reproduced around 1&#x2F;3 of the time.