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Crime and punishment: the economic burden of impunity
Mirta B. Gordon, J. R. Iglesias, Viktoriya Semeshenko +1
Crime is an economically important activity, sometimes called the industry of crime. It may represent a mechanism of wealth distribution but also a social and economic charge becau…
The unfair consequences of equal opportunities: comparing exchange models of wealth distribution
G. M. Caon, S. Goncalves, J. R. Iglesias
Simple agent based exchange models are a commonplace in the study of wealth distribution of artificial societies. Generally, each agent is characterized by its wealth and by a risk…
The dynamics of opinion in hierarchical organizations
M. F. Laguna, S. Risau-Gusman, G. Abramson +2
We study the mutual influence of authority and persuasion in the flow of opinion. Many social organizations are characterized by a hierarchical structure where the propagation of o…
Wealth redistribution with finite resources
S. Pianegonda, J. R. Iglesias, G. Abramson +1
We present a simplified model for the exploitation of finite resources by interacting agents, where each agent receives a random fraction of the available resources. An extremal dy…