The Pareto , Zipf and other power laws
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Many empirical size distributions in economics and elsewhere exhibit power-law behaviour in the upper tail. This article contains a simple explanation for this. It also predicts lower-tail powerlaw behaviour, which is verified empirically for income and city-size data.
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