[lbo-talk] Wealth Distribution & Kinetic Theor

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Wed Apr 25 21:09:43 PDT 2007


Charles Brown wrote:
>
>
> Agreed. The use of the word "obey" is not felicitous, but that was not my
> original question. If the Gibbs distribution, meant to model an ideal gas,
> can also model wealth distribution in certain diverse societies -- 19th
> century Europe, 20th century India and Japan -- what does that say about the
> model and about wealth distribution. Sorry for the bad grammar.
>
> Jerry
>
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> CB: The explosion cloud of an atom bomb is similar to a mushroom. What does
> that mean ? A certain constellation of stars looks like a big dipper.
> What does that mean ?

CB provides lovely Wittgensteinian koans here. Brilliant.

Miles



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