Market exchange rules responsible for wealth concentration, physicists say

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 16:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Physicists have shown that wealth concentration invariably stems from a particular type of market exchange rules -- where agents cannot receive more income than their own capital. The authors concluded that maximum inequalities ensue from free markets, which are governed by such seemingly fair rules.

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