Cities and countries
by Andrew Rose
"If one ranks cities by population, the rank of a city is inversely related to its size, a well-documented phenomenon known as Zipf's Law. Further, the growth rate of a city's population is uncorrelated with its size, another well-known characteristic known as Gibrat's Law. In this paper, I show that both characteristics are true of countries as well as cities; the size distributions of cities and countries are similar. But theories that explain the size-distribution of cities do not obviously apply in explaining the size-distribution of countries. The similarity of city- and country-size distributions is an interesting riddle"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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Cities and towns, Growth, Human geography, Population, Size of States, States, Size of| Edition | Availability |
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Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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