Wealth distribution and collective knowledge: A Boltzmann approach

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2028, 2014, Pages

  Pareschi, L ^a   Toscani, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boltzmann equation; Collective knowledge; Multi agent systems; Wealth distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907865727     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0396     Document Type: Article

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