Social Percolation

Abstract

We introduce the simplest model which relates the emergence of collective social/economic phenomena to the existence of a (possibly self-organized) percolation transition. We suggest a series of extensions to financial, economic, political systems.

Essay prepared for the Econophysics Forum

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