Karl Marx viewed class struggles to be so central as to assert that all societal history was, and will in the future be, merely a succession of struggles between classes. Many authors have elaborated upon such themes within Marxist frameworks; some have used these as prisms to interpret various...

This paper provides a methodology to study coalition formation problems with externalities and heterogeneous players, when some subset of the players can act as “coalition developers” over time. The framework provided here allows to explicitly predict the timing of admission to coalitions,...