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Income and wealth allocation are foundational components of how economies operate. These are complex distributions, and it is hard to get a real sense for their dynamics using simplifications like average or median. One metric that characterizes such distributions better is the Gini Index, which on one extreme is 0, a completely equitable distribution, and on the other extreme is 1, the most inequitable, where a single individual has all the resources. Most experts agree that viable economies cannot exist at either extreme, but identifying a preferred range has historically been a matter of conflicting political philosophies and emotional appeals. This research explores instead whether there might be a theoretical and empirical basis for a preferred Gini Index. Specifically, I explore a simple question: Before financial systems existed, how were natural assets allocated? Intrinsic human attributes such as height, strength, & beauty were the original measures of value in which human social groups traded. Each of these attributes is distributed in a diverse and characteristic way, which I propose has gradually established the acceptable bounds of inequality through evolutionary psych

Author

Costenaro, Dave

Published

2023

Language

EN