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Zipf's law and maximum sustainable growth
Y. Malevergne, A. Saichev, D. Sornette
Zipf's law states that the number of firms with size greater than S is inversely proportional to S. Most explanations start with Gibrat's rule of proportional growth but require ad…
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Quantification of deviations from rationality with heavy-tails in human dynamics
Thomas Maillart, Didier Sornette, Stefan Frei +2
The dynamics of technological, economic and social phenomena is controlled by how humans organize their daily tasks in response to both endogenous and exogenous stimulations. Queue…