Lorenz Curve of the Koch Snowflake Fractal

Update 2015, I have published/posted.
I have found that Lorenz distribution is a fractal phenomenon. That the fractal models the Lorenz Curve and Gini coefficients increase as the fractal grows and develops. The distribution between groups accelerates with growth and development. Lorenz distribution is universal: income and wealth inequality is one aspect of a universal phenomenon and is scale-invariant.
 https://www.academia.edu Demonstrating_Lorenz_Wealth_Distribution_and_Increasing_Gini_Coefficient_with_the_Iterating_Koch_Snowflake_Fractal_Attractor

Also see: Improved Fractal Lorenz Curve





Wealth Distribution: a (universal) fractal phenomena 
I was teaching income distribution recently, and I thought maybe the (Koch Curve) fractal demonstrates the Lorenz Curve.
After doing this entry I analysed a (Xmas) tree for Lorenz distribution. Click to see.

I could not make any obvious connection between the Lorenz Curve's income distribution and the Koch snowflake development: maybe because income is a flow concept and the Koch snowflake doesn't seem to demonstrate this.  So I thought: what distribution does it demonstrate? I turned my attention to the concept of wealth distribution. I assumed that Wealth corresponds better with the Area  - reasoning that both are a 'stock' concept.
I did the calculations (taken from the area calculation table in my first blog 1.1 seen below): per cent of the number of triangles, and per cent of the area for each triangle -and then corrected the results so as to view like the original Lorenz Curve.
Koch Snowflake (fractal) development 


Results
Analysis of the Koch Snowflake

Lorenz Curve calculation

Diagram:

Lorenz Curve for the Koch Snowflake
Thinking that this Lorenz Curve was rather exaggerated to the right - with a very large Gini coefficient  - I searched for a reference to agree with this extreme position - in 'nature' or the real world. I found the following wealth Lorenz Curve reference for the USA economy in one of my economics texts.



Discussions and Conclusions
The wealth and income  Lorenz Curves are a fractal phenomena and are best demonstrated using the (Koch Snowflake) fractal.
Lorenz distribution is a universal phenomenon, inherent in all systems fractal and at all scales. Income and wealth distribution are just two manifestations of this structure and thus are not directly determined by Economic output or growth - they are 'natural'.  
I look forward to making real Lorenz curves from real fractals: trees, rivers, and the like.  

 2011-01-15
BBC article on Wikipedia:
Listening to the below podcast, I heard a reference made to the concept of distribution of article posting - most of the articles are added by a very few.



Lorenz Curve from Book: Economics, Micheal Parkin, Addison-Wesley 1990
2012-12-10
It interested me when I saw this image on facebook: why poverty now :


My mind immediately saw the Fibonacci resemblance.








Comments

  1. It is not natural.

    Humans are individuals, not branches on a tree caste structure.

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