Karthik Shashidhar

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Socioeconomic quantities such as wages, wealth, patents, AIDS cases, crime, and educational institutions, which have no analog in biology and did not exist on the planet before humans invented cities ten thousand years ago, also scale with population size but with a superlinear (meaning bigger than one) exponent of approximately 1.15.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
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