Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 114 (3) , 739-767
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556133
Abstract
Zipf's law is a very tight constraint on the class of admissible models of local growth. It says that for most countries the size distribution of citKeywords
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