Emergent Inequalities in a Primitive Agent-Based Good-Exchange Model
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| author | Patil, Nirbhay Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe |
| author_facet | Patil, Nirbhay Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe |
| contents | Rising inequalities around the globe bring into question our economic systems and the origin of such inequalities. Here we propose a toy agent-based model where each entity is simultaneously producing and consuming indivisible goods. We find that the system exhibits a non-trivial phase transition beyond which a market clearing equilibrium exists but becomes dynamically unreachable. When production capacity exceeds a threshold and adapts too slowly, some agents cannot sell all their goods. This leads to global price deflation and induces strong wealth inequalities, with the spontaneous separation of the population into a rich class and a poor class. We explore ways to alleviate poverty in this model and whether they have real life significance. |
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| spellingShingle | Emergent Inequalities in a Primitive Agent-Based Good-Exchange Model Patil, Nirbhay Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Physics and Society Rising inequalities around the globe bring into question our economic systems and the origin of such inequalities. Here we propose a toy agent-based model where each entity is simultaneously producing and consuming indivisible goods. We find that the system exhibits a non-trivial phase transition beyond which a market clearing equilibrium exists but becomes dynamically unreachable. When production capacity exceeds a threshold and adapts too slowly, some agents cannot sell all their goods. This leads to global price deflation and induces strong wealth inequalities, with the spontaneous separation of the population into a rich class and a poor class. We explore ways to alleviate poverty in this model and whether they have real life significance. |
| title | Emergent Inequalities in a Primitive Agent-Based Good-Exchange Model |
| topic | Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Physics and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18116 |