Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2023249906> ?p ?o ?g. }
- W2023249906 endingPage "138" @default.
- W2023249906 startingPage "120" @default.
- W2023249906 abstract "Abstract The increasing inequality in income and wealth in recent years, and the associated excessive pay packages of CEOs in the US and elsewhere, is of growing concern among policy makers as well as the common person. However, there seems to be no satisfactory answer, in conventional economic theories and models, to the fundamental questions of what kind of income distribution we ought to see, at least under ideal conditions, in a free market environment, and whether this distribution is fair. We propose a novel microeconomic game theoretic framework that addresses these questions and proves that the lognormal distribution is the fairest inequality of pay in an organization comprising of homogeneous agents, under ideal free market conditions at equilibrium. We also show that for a population of two different classes of agents, the equilibrium distribution is a combination of two different lognormal distributions where one of them, corresponding to the top ∼3–5% of the population, can be misidentified as a Pareto distribution. We compare our predictions with empirical data on global income inequality trends provided by Piketty and others. Our analysis suggests that the Scandinavian countries, and to a lesser extent Switzerland, Netherlands and Australia, have managed to get close to the ideal distribution for the bottom ∼99% of the population, while the US and UK remain less fair at the other extreme. Other European countries such as France and Germany, and Japan and Canada, are in the middle. Our theory also shows the deep and direct connection between potential game theory and statistical mechanics through entropy, which we identify as a measure of fairness in a distribution. This leads us to propose the fair market hypothesis, that the self-organizing dynamics of the ideal free market, i.e., Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”, not only promotes efficiency but also maximizes fairness under the given constraints." @default.
- W2023249906 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W2023249906 creator A5041360253 @default.
- W2023249906 creator A5050679262 @default.
- W2023249906 creator A5069429034 @default.
- W2023249906 date "2015-10-01" @default.
- W2023249906 modified "2023-10-17" @default.
- W2023249906 title "How much inequality in income is fair? A microeconomic game theoretic perspective" @default.
- W2023249906 cites W1596983076 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W1919878871 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W1971458805 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W1972645710 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W1973338883 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W1979089529 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W1993803315 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W1997743066 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W1998736328 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2010776907 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2031849821 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2032558547 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2053155700 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2069587026 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2071549451 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2093245342 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2095090882 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2098353707 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2105040267 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2118725644 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2135410596 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2138716256 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2148501506 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2149902237 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2156554854 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W2314566165 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W3022321359 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W3022808291 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W3098351188 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W3122295249 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W3123710791 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W3125959030 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W4245391281 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W4251781751 @default.
- W2023249906 cites W4252028749 @default.
- W2023249906 doi "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2015.04.014" @default.
- W2023249906 hasPublicationYear "2015" @default.
- W2023249906 type Work @default.
- W2023249906 sameAs 2023249906 @default.
- W2023249906 citedByCount "15" @default.
- W2023249906 countsByYear W20232499062016 @default.
- W2023249906 countsByYear W20232499062017 @default.
- W2023249906 countsByYear W20232499062019 @default.
- W2023249906 countsByYear W20232499062020 @default.
- W2023249906 countsByYear W20232499062021 @default.
- W2023249906 countsByYear W20232499062022 @default.
- W2023249906 countsByYear W20232499062023 @default.
- W2023249906 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W2023249906 hasAuthorship W2023249906A5041360253 @default.
- W2023249906 hasAuthorship W2023249906A5050679262 @default.
- W2023249906 hasAuthorship W2023249906A5069429034 @default.
- W2023249906 hasBestOaLocation W20232499061 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C100001284 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C118084267 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C12713177 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C133425853 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C134306372 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C144237770 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C145236788 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C154945302 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C162324750 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C33923547 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C45555294 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C513380476 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConcept C519300510 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C100001284 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C118084267 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C12713177 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C133425853 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C134306372 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C144237770 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C145236788 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C154945302 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C162324750 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C33923547 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C41008148 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C45555294 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C513380476 @default.
- W2023249906 hasConceptScore W2023249906C519300510 @default.
- W2023249906 hasFunder F4320309111 @default.
- W2023249906 hasLocation W20232499061 @default.
- W2023249906 hasOpenAccess W2023249906 @default.
- W2023249906 hasPrimaryLocation W20232499061 @default.
- W2023249906 hasRelatedWork W2160643949 @default.
- W2023249906 hasRelatedWork W2592754073 @default.
- W2023249906 hasRelatedWork W2596595071 @default.
- W2023249906 hasRelatedWork W2607485370 @default.
- W2023249906 hasRelatedWork W2946715614 @default.
- W2023249906 hasRelatedWork W2964061901 @default.