Luís M. A. Bettencourt

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

It's a rate of change in time.

So money is being made and it's being expended.

And so that's kind of a clock for the system.

So what you find mathematically is that basically when you double the size of the city, there's sort of an exponent that says it increases by 16% more or less.

It's crazy.

So for example, the GDP per capita or the wages that somebody makes on average.

Okay.

So there's a big average.

There are people that make a lot more money.

People make a lot less money.

But usually when you use these tools, it's just about the average.

So that's kind of interesting.

So you make more money, spend more money.

But it turns out that almost anything that's a social behavior.

whether it is, so we looked at lots of different things.

We looked at rates at which people catch new diseases like AIDS or COVID in the beginning.

So that's just, you know, people have models for this, but basically that makes it contacts between people.

That's the idea that these things are transmitted that way.

Or we looked at patents, we looked at crime, we looked at many things that tend to have the same character that requires a person-on-person sort of transaction or interaction.

And these things all have this feature that they accelerate in time.

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