Jeremiah Dittmar: Zipf's Law and Its Discontents
- Early modern cities follow a power law distribution--in western Europe
- In eastern Europe they don't: too few very small and too few very large cities
- Deviations even more extreme south of the Danube
- Jeremiah wants to build a model of this...
- A quintuple threat paper:
- Santa Fe
- Growth economics
- Economic history--industrial revolution and differential spread
- Political economy--transition from feudalism to capitalism
- History of economic thought
- Economic and political amenities and disamenities of urbanity...
