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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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Autores principales: Ortman, Scott G., Cabaniss, Andrew H. F., Sturm, Jennie O., Bettencourt, Luís M. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4644079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26601129
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1400066