This Colloquium reviews statistical models for money, wealth, and income distributions
developed in the econophysics literature since the late 1990s. By analogy with the …

This article is the second part of a review of recent empirical and theoretical developments
usually grouped under the heading Econophysics. In the first part, we reviewed the statistical …

The largely dominant meritocratic paradigm of highly competitive Western cultures is rooted
on the belief that success is mainly due, if not exclusively, to personal qualities such as …

Although normal distributions and related current quantitative methods are still relevant for
some organizational research, the growing ubiquity of power laws signifies that Pareto …

The distribution of wealth and income is never uniform, and philosophers and economists
have tried for years to understand the reasons and formulate remedies for such inequalities …

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 …

This is a review article for Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, to be published
by Springer http://refworks. springer. com/complexity/. The paper reviews statistical models …

Kinetic equations modelling the redistribution of wealth in simple market economies is one
of the major topics in the field of econophysics. We present a unifying approach to the …

We review the basic kinetic wealth-exchange models of Angle [J. Angle, Social Forces 65,
293 (1986); J. Math. Sociol. 26, 217 (2002)], Bennati [E. Bennati, Rivista Internazionale di …

We propose a novel kinetic exchange model differing from previous ones in two main
aspects. First, the basic dynamics is modified in order to represent economies where …