Econophysics of Wealth Distributions Econophys-Kolkata I

Understanding the distribution of income and wealth in an economy has been a classic problem in economics for the last hundred years. Apart from the rapidly decaying number density of people with their income crossing over to a robust power law for the very rich, known as the Pareto power-law, after...

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Other Authors: Chatterjee, Arnab (Editor), Yarlagadda, Sudhakar (Editor), Chakrabarti, Bikas K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milano Springer Milan 2005, 2005
Edition:1st ed. 2005
Series:New Economic Windows
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Data and analysis
  • Pareto’s Law of Income Distribution: Evidence for Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States
  • Two-class Structure of Income Distribution in the USA: Exponential Bulk and Power-law Tail
  • Pareto-Zipf, Gibrat’s Laws, Detailed-Balance and their Breakdown
  • Empirical study and model of personal income
  • Blockbusters, Bombs and Sleepers: The Income Distribution of Movies
  • Models and theories
  • Emergent Statistical Wealth Distributions in Simple Monetary Exchange Models: A Critical Review
  • Lagrange Principle of Wealth Distribution
  • Carnot Process of Wealth Distribution
  • Ideal-Gas Like Markets: Effect of Savings
  • Kinetic Theory Models for the Distribution of Wealth: Power Law from Overlap of Exponentials
  • Detailed Simulation Results for Some Wealth Distribution Models in Econophysics
  • Dynamics of Money and Income Distributions
  • Dynamic Process of Money Transfer Models
  • A Stochastic Trading Model of Wealth Distribution
  • Wealth Distribution in a Network with Correlations Between Links and Success
  • The Monomodal, Polymodal, Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Distribution of Money
  • Relieving Poverty by Modifying Income and Wealth Distributions
  • The Rich Are Different ! Pareto Law from Asymmetric Interactions in Asset Exchange Models
  • Do We All Face the Same Constraints?
  • Related studies
  • A Stochastic Model of Wealth Distribution
  • How the Rich Get Richer
  • Power-Law Distribution in an Emerging Capital Market
  • Statistical Analysis on Bombay Stock Market
  • Funds Management by Banks in India: Solution to a Persisting Optimization Problem
  • Income Distribution in the Boltzmann-Pareto Framework
  • Comments and Discussions
  • Econophys-Kolkata: A Short Story
  • Econophysics of Wealth Distribution: A Comment
  • Econophysics of WealthDistributions: Workshop Summaries