Why do power laws exist? I have an intuitive understanding of how bell curves fall out of accumulated random events. -Similarly, is there a simple principle causing power laws to appear everywhere? -How can we predict that something will follow a power law distribution?
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Do you have any recommended reading material for this? I'm interested in the question - what makes certain domains amenable to power laws vs not.
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I just gave you a ref, the Per Bak book
Dated and a bit controversial now, but classic.
The field basically stagnated after the networks research of ~2000 (Barabasi book is key ref there)
Finding power laws was a cottage industry through 90s. Then there was a backlash - Show replies
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