From Wealth to Power
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The curse of wealth and power
We study a model in which being more powerful does not necessarily imply being wealthier. r 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: C7; S477; B201
متن کاملOrganizing Violence: Wealth, Power, and Limited Government
1. Introduction Addressing the relationship between political order and development, Samuel Huntington (1968, p. 1) once stated, " the most important … distinction among countries concerns not their forms of government but their degree of government. " Events in Angola, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Zaire illustrate Huntington's point: Political order may not be sufficient, but, these cases sug...
متن کاملKinetic theory models for the distribution of wealth: power law from overlap of exponentials
Various multi-agent models of wealth distributions defined by microscopic laws regulating the trades, with or without a saving criterion, are reviewed. We discuss and clarify the equilibrium properties of the model with constant global saving propensity, resulting in Gamma distributions, and their equivalence to the Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic energy distribution for a system of molecules in an e...
متن کاملA power law tail in India’s wealth distribution: Evidence from survey data
This study uses survey data from India to examine the top percentile of the wealth distribution in India. Using nationally representative samples from two years, 1991 and 2002, a power law tail is found with a Pareto exponent ranging between 1.8 and 2.4. The tail is examined for three specific groupings: households in the rural areas, households in the urban areas and all households. The distri...
متن کاملDo wealth distributions follow power laws? Evidence from ¬タリrich lists¬タル
We use data on the wealth of the richest persons taken from the ‘rich lists’ provided by business magazines like Forbes to verify if the upper tails of wealth distributions follow, as often claimed, a power-law behaviour. The data sets used cover the world’s richest persons over 1996–2012, the richest Americans over 1988–2012, the richest Chinese over 2006–2012, and the richest Russians over 20...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Islam and Society
سال: 2001
ISSN: 2690-3741,2690-3733
DOI: 10.35632/ajis.v18i4.1988