This is a repository for the paper:

Contributions of Talent, Luck, Context and Perspective on Success

By Bernardo Alves Furtado @ Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and National Council of Research (CNPq)

currently submitted, with a preprint available at

http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00034

To run the game and see a simulation, do:

python game_on.py

To run the game a number of times and record the results, do:

python simulation.py

You can adjust the number of times to run {m}. It takes only a matter of minutes to run 100,000 times.

To plot the figures of the paper, run:

python generate_paper_figures.py