Power law scaling in the world income distribution

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Di Guilmi, Corrado ^a   Gaffeo, Edoardo ^b   Gallegati, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

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