ARE SOCIAL STRUCTURES DETERMINED BY THE ECONOMY?

G. Corso (), L. S. Lucena () and Z. D. Thomé ()
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G. Corso: International Center for Complex Systems and Departamento de Física Teórica e Experimental, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, 59078 970, Natal, RN, Brazil
L. S. Lucena: International Center for Complex Systems and Departamento de Física Teórica e Experimental, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, 59078 970, Natal, RN, Brazil
Z. D. Thomé: International Center for Complex Systems and Departamento de Física Teórica e Experimental, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, 59078 970, Natal, RN, Brazil

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2003, vol. 14, issue 01, 73-80

Abstract: We simulate the interplay between productive and financial activity using a model that considers equal opportunities among individuals of a society. As the simulation evolves in time, three qualitative wealth distribution profiles are generated according to the flux of productive capital. We relate these curves to different socioeconomic structures: a primitive equalitarian society; a medieval society having a distribution of wealth with castes and discontinuities; and a modern society where this distribution is roughly exponential.

Keywords: Econophysics; sociophysics; modeling; socioeconomic transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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