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most citedExponential Structure of Income Inequality: Evidence from 67 Countries

69 citations · 129 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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econ.GN2016★ 69 cited

Exponential Structure of Income Inequality: Evidence from 67 Countries

Yong Tao, Xiangjun Wu, Tao Zhou +5

Economic competition between humans leads to income inequality, but, so far, there has been little understanding of underlying quantitative mechanisms governing such a collective b…

q-fin.GN2015★ 18 cited

Universal Laws of Human Society's Income Distribution

Yong Tao

General equilibrium equations in economics play the same role with many-body Newtonian equations in physics. Accordingly, each solution of the general equilibrium equations can be…

q-fin.GN2014★ 10 cited

Rawls' Fairness, Income Distribution and Alarming Level of Gini Coefficient

Yong Tao, Xiangjun Wu, Changshuai Li

The argument that the alarming level of Gini coefficient is 0.4 is very popular, especially in the media industry, all around the world for a long time. Although the 0.4 standard i…

q-fin.GN2012

Spontaneous Economic Order

Yong Tao

This paper provides an attempt to formalize Hayek's notion of spontaneous order within the framework of the Arrow-Debreu economy. Our study shows that if a competitive economy is e…

q-fin.GN2010

How to predict and avert economic crisis

Yong Tao

Our study shows that many firms would accumulate at zero output level (namely, Bankruptcy status) if a perfectly competitive market reaches full employment (namely, those people wh…

physics.soc-ph2010★ 32 cited

Competitive market for multiple firms and economic crisis

Yong Tao

The origin of economic crises is a key problem for economics. We present a model of long-run competitive markets to show that the multiplicity of behaviors in an economic system, o…