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Dragon-King or Black Swan: Can We Predict the Next Financial Crisis?
Benford’s law, Zipf’s law, and the Pareto distribution
A remarkable phenomenon in probability theory is that of universality – that many seemingly unrelated probability distributions, which ostensibly involve large numbers of unknown parameters, …
Power law - Wikipedia
THE MATHEMATICS OF TERRORISM
Power laws -- a mathematical distribution, usually depicted as a curve, that depicts a low number of large extreme events (on the left) tailing off to a large number of mild events (on the right) -- are good at describing...
World's economies show similarities in economic inequality
Economists who yearn for the redistribution of wealth in an ideal society are up against history. According to a recent study, the uneven distribution of wealth in a society appears to be a universal ...
The QE Sandpile
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