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Slide Set 009: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 3

Slide Set 008: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 2
 
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Slide Set 010: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 4

Herbert Simon's rich-get-richer model. Simple, powerful.

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64M ; Last updated: 2021/10/06, 20:25:47
Freeze-dried snack slides:
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Original slides as served in lectures:
65M ; Last updated: 2021/10/06, 20:26:04

Covered in these episode(s) and clip(s):


Episode 1: The OG rich-get-richer model (1:52:03)

Clip 1: Intro to Simon vs Mandebrot and the mechanism of rich-get-richerness (6:35)

Clip 2: Observations of Zipfery, 1910 on (12:13)

Clip 3: Herbert Simon #awesomeness (2:18)

Clip 4: Toy model of rich-get-richer (14:51)

Clip 5: Observations about our toy model (7:10)

Clip 6: Krugman's math woes (1:34)

Clip 7: We work through an analysis (14:37)

Clip 8: What we find: Micro-to-macro story and surprising agreement with reality (8:30)

Clip 9: An appraisal of catchphrases (3:53)

Clip 10: Simon's model recap (3:47)

Clip 11: First mover advantage (11:47)

Clip 12: Analysis of first moverness (5:33)

Clip 13: It's a pyramid scheme (3:20)

Clip 14: Rank variability is high (2:23)

Clip 15: Self-referential citation data (2:54)

Clip 16: Rich-get-richer's everywhereness (10:38)



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