Simulating the wealth distribution with a Richest-Following strategy on scale-free network

In this paper, we investigate the wealth distribution with agents playing evolutionary games on a scale-free social network adopting the Richest-Following strategy. Paretoʹs power-law distribution (1897) of wealth is demonstrated with power factor in agreement with that of US or Japan. Moreover, the agentʹs personal wealth is proportional to its number of contacts (connectivity), and this leads to the phenomenon that the rich gets richer and the poor gets relatively poorer, which agrees with the Matthew Effect