series of papers, Solomon and co-workers' 8 have suggested that a very wide class of simple microscopic representation models based on generalised Lotka-Volterra (GLV) dynamics can account for the generic properties of financial markets. The main conceptual ingredient responsible for the emergence of power l

this stage I dumped this paper in the 'irrelevant' pile and forgot about it. That was a big mistake. In 2006 it was suggested to me that the general Lotka-Volterra distribution might make a good fit to some high quality income data I had acquired from the UK Statistical Office. It turned out that the data did