Specialisation and wealth inequality in a model of a clustered economic network

Authored by RA Bentley, MW Lake, SJ Shennan

Date Published: 2005-09

DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2005.03.008

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Platforms: Repast

Model Documentation: Other Narrative Mathematical description

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Abstract

In this paper we present an agent-based model of specialization, exchange and inequality within a clustered social network, with implications for the economic effect that contact with colonizing groups may have had on prehistoric indigenous populations. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Agent-based modelling Complex networks Social networks Wealth inequality exchange kin networks mesolithic-neolithic transition power laws prehistoric trade