Double power laws in income and wealth distributions
โ Scribed by Ricardo Coelho; Peter Richmond; Joseph Barry; Stefan Hutzler
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 359 KB
- Volume
- 387
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-4371
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