Emergent inequality and self-organized social classes in a network of power and frustration.

We propose a simple agent-based model on a network to conceptualize the allocation of limited wealth among more abundant expectations at the interplay of power, frustration, and initiative. Concepts imported from the statistical physics of frustrated systems in and out of equilibrium allow us to com...

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Main Authors: Benoit Mahault, Avadh Saxena, Cristiano Nisoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5315399?pdf=render