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Economic Inequality as a Statistical Outcome

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  • Kafri, Oded
  • Fishof, Eli

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We argue that the economic inequality which is found in the OECD countries and in the salaries of the top executives’ in the Fortune 100 companies are merely an equilibrium statistical outcome, similar to that of the energy distribution among photons in a blackbody. When we treat the photons as people, the radiation modes as social rank and the photons’ energy as wealth; we obtain for the energy distribution among photons: the Gini index, the ratio between rich and poor, the relative poverty, the part of the property held by the upper percentiles, the salaries of CEO's, very similar values to the corresponding numbers of the OECD counties and Fortune 100 companies.

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  • Kafri, Oded & Fishof, Eli, 2016. "Economic Inequality as a Statistical Outcome," MPRA Paper 73837, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:73837
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    1. Oded KAFRI, 2017. "The Second Law as a Cause of the Evolution," Journal of Economics Bibliography, KSP Journals, vol. 4(1), pages 56-69, March.

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    economic inequality; Gini index; relative poverty; Pareto law;
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    • C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium

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