Two-class Structure of Income Distribution in the USA: Exponential Bulk and Power-law Tail

2005/01/01 by Victor M. Yakovenko, A. Christian Silva · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy

paper · doi:10.1007/88-470-0389-x_2

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Citations

• Lagrange statistics in systems (markets) with price constraints: Analysis of property, car sales, marriage and job markets by the Boltzmann function and the Pareto distribution
• Statistical mechanics of money
• The statistical distribution of money and the rate of money transference

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• Pareto principle [wikipedia]