We develop an integrated, general equilibrium, model of how the presence of vertical ties of ‘community’ between … in the incomes of capitalists sets in motion community and market processes that subsequently (a) further increase …

We analyze conflicts between communities. A community-specific public good, to which members make voluntary … contributions, defines communities. Some, but not all, members of one community may contribute towards another community’s public …’ of communities in this sense provides incentives to individuals to support confiscation of the other community’s wealth …

We investigate how vertical unity within a community interacts with horizontal class divisions of an unequal income … distribution. Community is conceptualized in terms of a public good to which all those in the community have equal access, but from … communities. Ideologies of community solidarity may well trump those of class solidarity because of the implicit sharing of …

We investigate how voluntary contributions to community-specific public goods affect (a) the relationship between … goods, and has strong implications for class and community solidarity. …

when it is groups such as localities and ethnicities. We model instead a group as a “community”, meaning thereby a … collection of individuals who have access to a community-specific public good, from which non-members are excluded. Such … poverty alleviation leads to seemingly paradoxical rules, such as targeting transfers to the community that is richer. Total …