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Information Synergy Maximizes the Growth Rate of Heterogeneous Groups
Jordan T Kemp, Adam G Kline, Luís MA Bettencourt
Collective action and group formation are fundamental behaviors among both organisms cooperating to maximize their fitness, and people forming socioeconomic organizations. Research…
The Bayesian Origins of Growth Rates in Stochastic Environments
Jordan T. Kemp, Luís M. A. Bettencourt
Stochastic multiplicative dynamics characterize many complex natural phenomena such as selection and mutation in evolving populations, and the generation and distribution of wealth…
Statistical Dynamics of Wealth Inequality in Stochastic Models of Growth
Jordan T. Kemp, Luis M. A. Bettencourt
Understanding the statistical dynamics of growth and inequality is a fundamental challenge to ecology and society. Recent analyses of wealth and income dynamics in contemporary soc…
Life Between the City and the Village: Comparative Analysis of Service Access in Indian Urban Slums
Anand Sahasranaman, Luís M. A. Bettencourt
The emergence of India as an urbanized nation is one of the most significant socioeconomic and political processes of the 21st century. An essential feature of India's urbanization…
Economic geography and the scaling of urban and regional income in India
Anand Sahasranaman, Luis M. A. Bettencourt
We undertake an exploration of the economic income (Gross Domestic Product, GDP) of Indian districts and cities based on scaling analyses of the dependence of these quantities on a…
Urban Geography and Scaling of Contemporary Indian Cities
Anand Sahasranaman, Luís M. A. Bettencourt
This paper attempts to create a first comprehensive analysis of the integrated characteristics of contemporary Indian cities, using scaling and geographic analysis over a set of di…