List of Chapters
         In this List of Chapters, the sources given after the titles include (in parentheses)
         the letter M followed by the year of publication and by the lower case letter that the
         Bibliography uses to distinguish different texts published in the same year. In the
         Bibliography, the items reproduced in this book and in Volumes N and H are
         marked by a star followed by a chapter number, which in some cases is incomplete
         or only tentative.
         Foreword by Ralph E. Gomory ix
         I • NONMATHEMATICAL PRESENTATIONS
         Preface (1996) 1
         El Introduction (1996) 13
         E2 Discontinuity and scaling: scope and
         likely limitations (1996) 50
         E3 New methods in statistical economics (M 1963e) 79
         E4 Sources of inspiration and historical background (1996) 105
         II • MATHEMATICAL PRESENTATIONS
         E5 States of randomness from mild to wild, and
         concentration in the short, medium and long run (1996) 117
         E6 Self-similarity and panorama of self-affinity (1996) 146
         E7 Rank-size plots, Zipf's law, and scaling (1996) 198
         E8 Proportional growth with or without diffusion,
         and other explanations of scaling (1996).
         • Appendices (M 1964o, M 1974d) 219
         E9 A case against the lognormal distribution (1996) 252
         III • PERSONAL INCOMES AND FIRM SIZES
         E10 L-stable model for the distribution of income (M 1960i).
         • Appendices (M 1963i, M 1963j) 271
         Ell L-stability and multiplicative variation of income (M 1961e) 307
         E12 Scaling distributions and income maximization (M 1962q) 336
         E13 Industrial concentration and scaling (1996) 364
         IV • THE M 1963 MODEL OF PRICE VARIATION
         E14 The variation of certain speculative prices (M 1963b).
         • Appendices (Fama & Blume 1966, M 1972b, M 1982c) 371
         E15 The variation of the price of cotton, wheat, and railroad
         stocks, and of some financial rates (M 1967j) 419
         E16 Mandelbrot on price variation (Fama 1963)
         (A guest contribution by E. F. Fama) 444
         El7 Comments by P. H. Cootner, E. Parzen & W. S. Morris
         (1960s), and responses (1996) 458
         E18 Computation of the L-stable distributions (1996) 466
         V • BEYOND THE M 1963 MODEL
         El9 Nonlinear forecasts, rational bubbles, and
         martingales (M 1966b) 471
         E20 Limitations of efficiency and martingales (M 1971e) 492
         E21 Self-affine variation in fractal time
         (Section 1 is by W. H. Taylor) (M & Taylor 1967, M 1973c) 513
         CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY 526
         INDEX 542
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