The Inequality Process Versus the Saved Wealth Model: Which Is the More Likely to Imply an Analogue of Thermodynamics in Social Science?

DOI10.1080/0022250X.2011.556766zbMath1275.91052OpenAlexW2022505063MaRDI QIDQ2862333

John Angle

Publication date: 14 November 2013

Published in: The Journal of Mathematical Sociology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0022250x.2011.556766

zbMATH Keywords

goodness of fitinequality processlabor income distributionparticle system modelsaved wealth model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30) Welfare economics (91B15)

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