Properties of wealth distribution in multi-agent systems of a complex network

We present a simple model for examining the wealth distribution with agents playing evolutionary games (the Prisoners' Dilemma and the Snowdrift Game) on complex networks. Pareto's power law distribution of wealth (from 1897) is reproduced on a scale-free network, and the Gibbs or log-norm...

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Main Authors: Hu, Mao-Bin, Jiang, R., Wu, Yong-Hong, Wang, R., Wu, Q.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14330