RE: Power Laws and Inequality

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 00:27:08 MST

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    >The very act of choosing, spread
    > widely enough and freely enough, creates a power law distribution.
    Inequality
    > occurs in large and unconstrained social systems for the same reasons
    stop-and-go
    > traffic occurs on busy roads, not because it is anyone's goal, but because
    it is a reliable
    > property that emerges from the normal functioning of the system.

    This fundamental insight forms the basis of much of Steven Pinker's social
    policy ruminations in THE BLANK SLATE.

    Damien Broderick



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