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A comment on Zipf's Law (2008).
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/114/3/739/1848099
The idea is that if the growth rate of a city is drawn from the same distribution, regardless of the actual city size, we get Zipf's law. To me this is a reasonable explanation why we see Zipf's law in many places in nature.
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https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/114/3/739/1848099
The idea is that if the growth rate of a city is drawn from the same distribution, regardless of the actual city size, we get Zipf's law. To me this is a reasonable explanation why we see Zipf's law in many places in nature.