This paper discusses the empirical validity of Goodwin’s (1967) macroeconomic model of growth with cycles by assuming that the individual income distribution of the Brazilian society is described by the Gompertz–Pareto distribution (GPD). This is formed by the combination of the Gompertz...

This work studies the Zipf law for cities in Brazil. Data from censuses of 1970, 1980, 1991 and 2000 were used to select a sample containing only cities with 30,000 inhabitants or more. The results show that the population distribution in Brazilian cities does follow a power-law similar to the...

"The book deals with the empirical characterization and dynamics of income distribution and its related quantities from the epistemological and practical perspectives of contemporary physics. Part I discusses the methodological basis of econophysics, several distribution functions used to model...

Economics and econophysics -- Measuring the income distribution -- Piketty's Capital in the twenty-first century -- Stochastic dynamics of income and wealth -- Circular flows in economic systems -- Goodwin type distributive macrodynamics.