Yes, I'd back a poisson myself, or something suitably fractal! Certainly nothing so symmetric and bounded as a gaussian. Cheers, Steve At 13:00 11/10/00 +0100, you wrote: >I'm hastily catching up on OPE: > >Gil replied (in #930) to a comment by Paul C that > >> >More abstractly, given a large set of industries with random >> distributions of >> >organic compositions of capital - following *some appropriate Gaussian >> >distribution* >> >(emphasis added) > >Is there any reason to think that the distribution of industry OCC's (or of >firm ones, for that matter) would be Gaussian? > >Haste means I don't have time to look in Farjoun and Machover, but I don't >recall them discussing this point: has anyone else? > >If I had to give a guess off the top of my head, I'd predict some skewed >distribution. > >Julian > > Dr. Steve Keen Senior Lecturer Economics & Finance University of Western Sydney Macarthur Building 11 Room 30, Goldsmith Avenue, Campbelltown PO Box 555 Campbelltown NSW 2560 Australia s.keen@uws.edu.au 61 2 4620-3016 Fax 61 2 4626-6683 Home 02 9558-8018 Mobile 0409 716 088 Home Page: http://bus.macarthur.uws.edu.au/steve-keen/
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