Physical space and long-tail markets

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 691-696

  Bentley, R Alexander ^a,b   Madsen, Mark E ^b,c   Ormerod, Paul ^d,e  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Volterra Consulting   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture evolution; Fashions; Power laws; Right skewed distributions; Turnover; Unpredictability

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

CULTURE EVOLUTION; FASHIONS; POWER-LAW; RIGHT-SKEWED DISTRIBUTIONS; TURNOVER; UNPREDICTABILITY;

SALES;

EID: 58149187819     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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