The possibility to analyze everyday monetary transactions is limited by the scarcity of
available data, as this kind of information is usually considered highly sensitive. Present …

A long-held assumption in entrepreneurship research is that normal (ie, Gaussian)
distributions characterize variables of interest for both theory and practice. We challenge this …

Increasingly, a huge amount of statistics have been gathered which clearly indicates that
income and wealth distributions in various countries or societies follow a robust pattern …

We use data on the wealth of the richest persons taken from the 'rich lists' provided by
business magazines like Forbes to verify if the upper tails of wealth distributions follow, as …

Underreporting and undersampling biases in top tail wealth, although widely acknowledged,
have not been statistically quantified so far, essentially because they are not readily …

This article investigates Pareto power law (PPL) behavior at the top of the Canadian wealth
distribution. To this end, Canadian Business data on the wealthiest 100 Canadians for the …

Almost universally, wealth is not distributed uniformly within societies or economies. Even
though wealth data have been collected in various forms for centuries, the origins for the …

There are real life phenomena in which the underlying process forces the majority of the
objects to be small and very few to be large, eg, wealth, city sizes, firm sizes and many alike …

There is a new wave of interest in the inequality of income and wealth in the social sciences
as well as in physics. On the top of the list are persons who own assets of US dollar 1 billion …

This book explores why, despite increased government spending on income-support, health
and education, the costs of public goods are rising and their quality is declining. Charting the …