Talk:King effect

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Text should be accessible at various levels of sophistication if possible

The King Effect, as it relates to national population distribution (and probably other variables as well), potentially might have considerable implications for future political and economic geography, and therefore in international relations^[1] . It would be helpful if the text explaining it and stretched exponential distributions generally were written so that it was accessible to readers of different levels of mathematical sophistication. To wit: there should be a treatment that is authoritative, but at the "For Dummies" level to impart the basic ideas to non-mathematical readers, followed by a more professionally-oriented section for those able to grasp it.

Would this article be the place to briefly mention some of these implications in a new section, perhaps? --FurnaldHall (talk) 16:16, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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^ See for example the sections dealing with China in Mearsheimer, John J. (2003). The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. W. W. Norton & Co.

[1] See for example the sections dealing with China in Mearsheimer, John J. (2003). The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. W. W. Norton & Co.

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