The  Institute’s Program

The Inequality Process is a mathematical model that mimics the dynamics of people's money incomes and wealth at both the individual (micro) and aggregate (macro) levels, in particular the size distributions. The Inequality Process is a stochastic interacting particle system (Angle, 1990), similar to the stochastic particle system model of the kinetic theory of gases (that implies the approximate laws of gas thermodynamics: Boyle’s and Charles’ laws, the beginning of statistical physics). The Institute’s program is 1) to advance the frontiers of the Inequality Process, 2) to find applications of the Inequality Process to the operations of government and business, and 3) via applications to fund the operations of the Institute and to establish the use-validity of the Inequality Process. Click on TRESORIA page for discussion of potential applications of the Inequality Process. 

                        Click on Introductory Articles for the most accessible introductions to the Inequality Process. Click on Angle On The Inequality Process for the author's papers on the Inequality Process from 1980 onward. Click on Relevant Papers By Others for examples of discussions of the Inequality Process by other researchers, or papers that take the Inequality Process as a point of departure and cite an Inequality Process paper. These papers are mostly written by physicists interested in doing economics and sociology as natural sciences, the interdisciplinary field of econophysics.

    The Inequality Process Institute (TIPI) seeks funding for pure scientific research on the Inequality Process as a mathematical object and to find more empirical instances of the characteristic statistical signature of the Inequality Process in data on personal income and wealth and related phenomena such as discriminatory coalition formation.  The Institute uses the service mark of TRESORIA for consulting with businesses and governments about applications of the Inequality Process to their needs. TIPI does economic research in commerce in the United States.

Credits: The TIPI logo was designed by Susan Rinaldi (srinaldi1@gmail.com). Photos are of the Wissahickon Valley Park, part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Fairmont Park. Photos taken by John Angle. The Institute was formerly located at the edge of the Wissahickon Valley Park. Website & Tech Support by www.ConsciousWebPresence.com