List of Chapters. - El Introduction (1996). - E2 Discontinuity and scaling: scope and likely limitations (1996). - E3 New methods in statistical economics (M 1963e). - E4 Sources of inspiration and historical background (1996). - E5 States of randomness from mild to wild and concentration in the short medium and long run (1996). - E6 Self-similarity and panorama of self-affinity (1996). - E7 Rank-size plots Zipf's law and scaling (1996). - E8 Proportional growth with or without diffusion and other explanations of scaling (1996). Appendices (M 1964o M 1974d). - E9 A case against the lognormal distribution (1996). - E10 L-stable model for the distribution of income (M 1960i). Appendices (M 1963i M 1963j). - E11 L-stability and multiplicative variation of income (M 1961e). - E12 Scaling distributions and income maximization (M 1962q). - E13 Industrial concentration and scaling (1996). - E14 The variation of certain speculative prices (M 1963b). Appendices (Fama & Blume 1966 M 1972b M 1982c). - E15 The variation of the price of cotton wheat and railroad stocks and of some financial rates (M 1967j). - E16 Mandelbrot on price variation (Fama 1963). - E17 Comments by P. H. Cootner E. Parzen & W. S. Morris (1960s) and responses (1996). - E18 Computation of the L-stable distributions (1996). - E19 Nonlinear forecasts rational bubbles and martingales (M 1966b). - E20 Limitations of efficiency and martingales (M 1971e). - E21 Self-affine variation in fractal time (M & Taylor 1967 M 1973c). - Cumulative Bibliography. Language: English