Asset-Exchange Model and wealth distribution
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The scientific study of economic inequality has drawn a major interest due to the ever growing uneven distribution of wealth within the whole society. According to Oxfam International, in 2010, 388 individuals holds as much wealth as half of the world population. And this number has, in 2016, decreased to 62 individuals (Hardoon and Ayele, 2016). It is a very important but extremely hard problem to analyze, explain and give prediction to the wealth distribution in human society because in reality this involves all di↵erent kinds of economic activities and has also a deep relationship with government policies on wealth redistribution, which varies from nation to nation. Finding a model simple enough but still keep track of the main characteristic of human wealth distribution which allows people to not only explain the inequality but also investigate the dynamic of wealth has been a long desire.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017