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Modeling Wealth Inequality

Modeling Wealth Inequality

Physicists explain how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer

J. Tobochnik, W. Christian and H. Gould.

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  • 1. Why is there wealth inequality?
  • 2. The Model
  • 3. Wealth distributions from the model
  • 4. What does the model predict?
  • 5. How can we reduce wealth inequality?
  • 6. Equitably Distributing Tax Revenues
  • 7. Gini Coefficient: A measure of inequality
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Authors

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