Theory of Zipf's Law and Beyond

by Yannick Malevergne, Didier Sornette, Alexander Saichev, et al.

Zipf's law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in e- nomics. It states that, for most countries, the size distributions of cities and of rms (with additional examples found in many other scienti c elds) are power laws with a speci c exponent: the number of cities and rms with a size greater thanS is inversely proportional toS. Most explanations start with Gibrat's law of proportional growth but need to incorporate additional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642029450
• ISBN13: 9783642029455
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"