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 description of emerging collective phenomena and self-organization in systems
composed of large numbers of individuals has gained increasing interest from various …

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 analyze the large-time behavior of various kinetic models for the redistribution of wealth
in simple market economies introduced in the pertinent literature in recent years. As specific …

This book is a course in methods and models rooted in physics and used in modelling
economic and social phenomena. It covers the discipline of econophysics, which creates an …

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 …