Colloquium: Statistical mechanics of money, wealth, and income

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1703-1725

  Yakovenko, Victor M ^a   Rosser, J Barkley ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BOLTZMANN-GIBBS DISTRIBUTION; CLASS DISTRIBUTIONS; ECONOMIC AGENTS; ECONOPHYSICSS; EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM; POWER-LAW;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 72449129109     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.81.1703     Document Type: Article

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