Evolutionary dynamics of social inequality and coincidence of Gini and Kolkata indices under unrestricted competition.

Autor: Banerjee, Suchismita, Biswas, Soumyajyoti, Chakrabarti, Bikas K., Challagundla, Sai Krishna, Ghosh, Asim, Guntaka, Suhaas Reddy, Koganti, Hanesh, Kondapalli, Anvesh Reddy, Maiti, Raju, Mitra, Manipushpak, Ram, Dachepalli R. S.
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Zdroj: International Journal of Modern Physics C: Computational Physics & Physical Computation; Apr2023, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p1-29, 29p
Abstrakt: Social inequalities are ubiquitous, and here we show that the values of the Gini (g) and Kolkata (k) indices, two generic inequality indices, approach each other (starting from g = 0 and k = 0. 5 for equality) as the competitions grow in various social institutions like markets, universities and elections. It is further shown that these two indices become equal and stabilize at a value (at g = k ≃ 0. 8 7) under unrestricted competitions. We propose to view this coincidence of inequality indices as a generalized version of the (more than a) century old 80-20 law of Pareto. Furthermore, the coincidence of the inequality indices noted here is very similar to the ones seen before for self-organized critical (SOC) systems. The observations here, therefore, stand as a quantitative support toward viewing interacting socio-economic systems in the framework of SOC, an idea conjectured for years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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