A distribution of extreme inequality with applications to conflict behavior: A geometric derivation of the Pareto distribution

DOI10.1016/0895-7177(89)90426-3zbMath0672.92023OpenAlexW2040165664MaRDI QIDQ1120512

Manus I. Midlarsky

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0895-7177(89)90426-3

zbMATH Keywords

Pareto distributionaccess to scarce resourcesconflict behaviordistribution of colonial populationsgeometric derivationInvariance propertiesland distributionlog-exponential distributionpolitical violenceresource acquisitorssequential arrivals of colonists

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.) (91B76) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99) Other natural sciences (mathematical treatment) (92F05)

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• The Lorenz equations: bifurcations, chaos, and strange attractors
• Invariant Distributions and the Limiting Behavior of Markovian Economic Models
• The Pareto-Levy Law and the Distribution of Income
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