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| A system is said to be meritocratic if the compensation and power available to individuals is determined by their abilities and merits. A system is topocratic if the compensation and power available to an individual is determined primarily by his or her position in a network. Here we introduce a simple agent based model to study the effects of networks in meritocracy. The model is perfectly meritocratic for fully connected networks but becomes topocratic for networks as sparse as those observed in society. Here individuals can produce and sell content -which we abstract as cultural content, such as books, films or music- and distribute the content produced by others. The production and distribution of content define two channels of compensation: a meritocratic channel where individuals are compensated for the content they sell and produce, and a topocratic channel, where individual compensation is based on the number of shortest paths that go through them in the network. We solve the model analytically and numerically for random and scale free networks, obtaining individuals payoff and the resulting income distributions. We conclude that the sparsity of networks represents a fundamental constraint to the meritocracy of modern societies. | |
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Internacional
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Si |
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Nombre congreso
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XXXIII Dynamics Days Europe [www.dynamics-days-europe-2013.org] |
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Tipo de participación
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960 |
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Lugar del congreso
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Madrid |
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Revisores
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Si |
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ISBN o ISSN
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978-84-15302-43-8 |
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DOI
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Fecha inicio congreso
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03/06/2013 |
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Fecha fin congreso
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07/06/2013 |
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Desde la página
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182 |
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Hasta la página
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182 |
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Título de las actas
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XXXIII Dynamics Days Europe. Book of Abstracts [www.dynamics-days-europe-2013.org/DDEXXXIII-AbstractsBook.pdf] |