Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (2018)
This is interesting and a fun link between statistical mechanics and observed income and wealth inequality.<p>But I think the statistics chosen to compare to the real world are a little cherry picked?  The wealth distribution matches, but in the simulation, I think the identities of the wealthy change over time.  The rich get poor, then rich again, then poor again.  Over an infinite time, everyone is in every wealth percentile.<p>But an important political economic problem in the real world is that the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor.  So in that regard the simulation does a poor job of explaining income and wealth inequality.