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A new theory shows how wealth, in different forms, can stick to some but not to others. The findings have implications ranging from the design of the Internet to economics. Real-world data — whether distributions of wealth, size of earthquakes or number of connections on a computer network — often follow power-law distributions rather than the familiar bell-shaped curve. In a power-law distribution, large events are reasonably common in comparison to smaller events……..

Original post by http://www.technology-blog.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2007/why-the-rich-get-richer.html