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Deriving the size distribution of personal wealth from “the rich get richer, the poor get poorer”

John Angle U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Room 1237, 1301 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20005
Pages 27-46 | Received 24 Mar 1993, Published online: 26 Aug 2010

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