the econophysics of corruption

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

< http://www.nature.com/nsu/020121/020121-14.html >

Sample of hilarity:

"For a social economy, there is a threshold average wealth above
which Pareto's law collapses and one person can garner a
significant proportion of the total wealth. Burda's team calls this
a "physical mechanism for corruption". Below the threshold, money
distribution follows the power law. For a liberal economy, on the
other hand, this threshold is infinite. So corruption,
theoretically speaking, does not occur."

Ian