Taxes in a simple wealth distribution model by inelastically scattering particles

@misc{citeulike:3056019, abstract = {In this work we use an inelastic scattering process of particles to propose a model able to reproduce the salient features of the wealth distribution in an economy by including taxes to each trading process and redistributing that collected among the population according to a given criterion. Additionally, we show that different optimal levels of taxes may exist depending on the redistribution criterion.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Guala, Sebastian D.}, citeulike-article-id = {3056019}, eprint = {0807.4484}, keywords = {economics, physics, social, tax}, month = {Jul}, posted-at = {2008-07-29 10:51:30}, priority = {2}, title = {Taxes in a simple wealth distribution model by inelastically scattering particles}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4484}, year = {2008} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:3056019 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3056019 N2 - In this work we use an inelastic scattering process of particles to propose a model able to reproduce the salient features of the wealth distribution in an economy by including taxes to each trading process and redistributing that collected among the population according to a given criterion. Additionally, we show that different optimal levels of taxes may exist depending on the redistribution criterion. TI - Taxes in a simple wealth distribution model by inelastically scattering particles KW - economics KW - physics KW - social KW - tax AU - Guala, Sebastian PY - 2008/Jul/28/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4484 ER -