Economic inequality: Is it natural?

Current Science

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1383-1389

  Chatterjee, Arnab ^a   Sinha, Sitabhra ^b   Chakrabarti, Bikas K ^a  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Asset exchange model; Kinetic theory; Pareto law; Wealth distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250370412     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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