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Kinetic exchange models for income and wealth distributions

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Increasingly, a huge amount of statistics have been gathered which clearly indicates that income and wealth distributions in various countries or societies follow a robust pattern, close to the Gibbs distribution of energy in an ideal gas in equilibrium. However, it also deviates in the low income and more significantly for the high income ranges. Application of physics models provides illuminating ideas and understanding, complementing the observations.

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  1. Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division and Centre for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata, 700064, India

    A. Chatterjee & B. K. Chakrabarti

  2. Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B. T. Road, Kolkata, 700108, India

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Chatterjee, A., Chakrabarti, B. Kinetic exchange models for income and wealth distributions. Eur. Phys. J. B 60, 135–149 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2007-00343-8

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