https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0412004/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11050867urn:hackerpapers:mention:cond-mat_0412004:11050867Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:37:54 GMT<p>&gt; The distribution of income seems so unnatural Actually, what&#x27;s striking to my mind is how mysteriously consistent the income distribution is with the same family of power law distributions (Zipf-Mandelbrot, Pareto, etc.) that describes such other, disparate, natural phenomena as the frequencies of words in natural languages [1], the sizes of cities [2], the sizes of asteroids [3], the abundances of species [4], the sizes of grains of sand on a beach [5], the magnitudes of earthquakes and avalanches [6], and many other things in the world. Anyway, my point is simply that the shape of the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0412004/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.stat-mechhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10875464urn:hackerpapers:submission:cond-mat_0412004:10875464Sun, 10 Jan 2016 14:53:38 GMT<p>Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf’s Law</p><p></p><p>13 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0412004/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.stat-mechhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391662urn:hackerpapers:mention:cond-mat_0412004:2391662Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:22:37 GMT<p>&gt; Mark wrote a paper about this I&#x27;m interested. Is it: Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf&#x27;s law, M. E. J. Newman, Contemporary Physics 46, 323–351 (2005). [link: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412004]</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cond-mat_0412004/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.stat-mech