Wednesday 22 February 2017

Science versus the 'Horatio Alger myth'

(DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory) In a new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have taken a condensed matter physics concept usually applied to the way substances such as ice freeze, called 'frustration,' and applied it to a simple social network model of frustrated components. They show that inequality of wealth can emerge spontaneously and more equality can be gained by pure initiative.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2lpbiQx

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