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JackFr on Jan 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Economics Simulation

I would say its as good an economic model as it would be an epidemiological model, if we changed 'wealth' to 'infection'.

markkat on Jan 21, 2014 [–]

That's the beauty that is used to advantage in physics, systems often behave in similar ways. Such a characteristic is not a weakness of a model, often it is a strength.

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