Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Basics: 1. Economics and econophysics; 2. Measuring the income distribution; 3. Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century; Part II. Statistical Econophysics: 4. Stochastic dynamics of income and wealth; Part III. Economic Cycles: 5. Circular flows in economic systems; 6. Goodwin type distributive macrodynamics; Postface; References; Subject index; Author index.

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An overview of the distributive dynamics of economic systems in a broad theoretical and empirical sense from the econophysical viewpoint.

About the Author

Marcelo Byrro Ribeiro is Associate Professor at the Physics Institute of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. His research focuses on econophysics and complex systems, observational cosmology and the philosophy of science. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.