Settlement scaling and increasing returns in an ancient society

A key property of modern cities is increasing returns to scale-the finding that many socioeconomic outputs increase more rapidly than their population size. Recent theoretical work proposes that this phenomenon is the result of general network effects typical of human social networks embedded in spa...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Science advances 2015-02, Vol.1 (1), p.e1400066-e1400066
Hauptverfasser:	Ortman, Scott G, Cabaniss, Andrew H F, Sturm, Jennie O, Bettencourt, Luís M A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Economic Anthropology SciAdv r-articles Social Sciences
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