I guess I read this differently.
The model is: " the distribution of payoffs is meritocratic only if the
average degree of the nodes is larger than a root of the total number of
nodes. We conclude that, in the light of this model, the sparsity and
structure of networks represents a fundamental constraint to the
meritocracy of societies."
That would seem to indicate that under sparser connectivity, increasing
the connectivity some (particularly to large hubs) might actually be
corrosive to meritocracies. It might be amusing to use this kind of
model to look at how confucian-style meritocracies would occasionally
fail big-time in the middle ages. One also thinks about the "mad
linker" scenario.
A summary with video from one of the authors is also at:
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-internet-fairness-income-video.html
C.
On 1/21/14, 8:16 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
Interesting study here, which suggests why farmers get so little on
the price of milk (yup, all the middlemen) and why, if you believe in
the value of a level economic playing field, communities benefit when
wired to the max.
-TJ
http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140121/srep03784/full/srep03784.html
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