Slide Set 07: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 2
Herbert Simon's rich-get-richer model. Simple, powerful.
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Covered in these episodes:
08c: Intro to Simon vs Mandebrot and the mechanism of rich-get-richerness (6:35)
08d: Observations of Zipfery, 1910 on (12:13)
08e: Herbert Simon #awesomeness (2:18)
08f: Toy model of rich-get-richer (14:51)
08g: Observations about our toy model (7:10)
08h: Krugman's math woes (1:34)
08i: We work through an analysis (14:37)
08j: What we find: Micro-to-macro story and surprising agreement with reality (8:30)
08k: An appraisal of catchphrases (3:53)
09a: Simon's model recap (3:47)
09c: First mover advantage (11:47)
09d: Analysis of first moverness (5:33)
09e: It's a pyramid scheme (3:20)
09f: Rank variability is high (2:23)
09g: Self-referential citation data (2:54)