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Published online 28 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020121-14
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Wealth spawns corruption
Physicists are explaining how politics can create the super-rich.
Solvent socialist economies could be more at risk from corruption than liberal ones, according to a team of physicists, mathematicians and economists.
Some political systems, say the researchers, contain the seeds of 'wealth condensation'1.
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