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We introduce here a simplified version (STvL) of the original Talent versus Luck (TvL) model, where only lucky events are present, and verify that its dynamical rules lead to the same very large wealth inequality. We also derive some analytical approximations aimed to capture the mechanism responsible for the creation of such wealth inequality from a Gaussian-distributed talent. Under these approximations, our analysis is able to reproduce quite well the results of the numerical simulations of the simplified model in special cases. On the other hand, it also shows that the complexity of the model lies in the fact that lucky events are transformed into an increase of capital with heterogeneous rates, which yields a nontrivial generalization of the role of multiplicative processes in generating wealth inequality, whose fully generic case is still not amenable to analytical computations. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1142\/s0219525920500046","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,3]],"date-time":"2020-06-03T13:58:51Z","timestamp":1591192731000},"page":"2050004","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["THE ORIGINS OF EXTREME WEALTH INEQUALITY IN THE TALENT VERSUS LUCK MODEL"],"prefix":"10.1142","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"DAMIEN","family":"CHALLET","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, CentraleSup\u00e9lec, Laboratoire de Mathematiques et Informatique, pour la Complexite et les Systemes, 9 Rue Joliot-Curie, 91190 Gif-Sur-Yvette, France"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9368-5800","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"ALESSANDRO","family":"PLUCHINO","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Piazza Universit\u00e0 2, 95131 Catania, Italy"},{"name":"INFN Sezione di Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"ALESSIO EMANUELE","family":"BIONDO","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Corso Italia 55, 95129 Catania, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"ANDREA","family":"RAPISARDA","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Piazza Universit\u00e0 2, 95131 Catania, Italy"},{"name":"INFN Sezione di Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy"},{"name":"Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefst\u00e4dter Str. 39, 1080 Wien, Austria"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"219","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,3]]},"reference":[{"volume-title":"An Economy for the 99%","year":"2017","author":"Hardoon D.","key":"S0219525920500046BIB001"},{"key":"S0219525920500046BIB002","volume-title":"Cours d\u2019Economique Politique","volume":"2","author":"Pareto V.","year":"1897"},{"doi-asserted-by":"publisher","key":"S0219525920500046BIB003","DOI":"10.1016\/S0378-4371(00)00205-3"},{"doi-asserted-by":"publisher","key":"S0219525920500046BIB004","DOI":"10.1088\/1751-8113\/41\/22\/224018"},{"doi-asserted-by":"publisher","key":"S0219525920500046BIB005","DOI":"10.1007\/978-88-470-1501-2_8"},{"doi-asserted-by":"publisher","key":"S0219525920500046BIB006","DOI":"10.2307\/2578675"},{"doi-asserted-by":"publisher","key":"S0219525920500046BIB007","DOI":"10.1140\/epjb\/e2009-00418-6"},{"doi-asserted-by":"publisher","key":"S0219525920500046BIB008","DOI":"10.1007\/88-470-0389-X_6"},{"doi-asserted-by":"publisher","key":"S0219525920500046BIB009","DOI":"10.1037\/11167-000"},{"volume-title":"Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence","year":"1990","author":"Kaufman A. 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