Living in an irrational society: Wealth distribution with correlations between risk and expected profits

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 371, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 112-117

  Fuentes, Miguel A ^a,b   Kuperman, M ^b   Iglesias, J R ^c  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO BALSEIRO   (Argentina)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Econophysics; Pareto's law; Wealth distribution

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ECONOPHYSICS; RISK AVERSION; WEALTH DISTRIBUTION; WINNING PROBABILITY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 33748074823     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.04.088     Document Type: Article

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