About the Authors

Peter Klimek

Affiliation Section for Science of Complex Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ricardo Hausmann

Affiliations Center for International Development and Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Stefan Thurner

stefan.thurner@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliations Section for Science of Complex Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PK RH ST. Analyzed the data: PK RH ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PK RH ST. Wrote the paper: PK RH ST.