. Building on Nitzan and Bichler’s Capital as Power hypothesis, I argue that hierarchy formation is an integral part of the … growth process. I hypothesize that the role of capital accumulation (through profit) is to facilitate hierarchy formation by …

by one’s position within an institutional hierarchy. While many theorists have proposed a connection between personal … number of subordinates below one’s position in a hierarchy. Using this definition, I find that relative income within firms …

increase as one moves up the hierarchy. But how this hierarchical structure affects income distribution has not been widely … hierarchy. This ‘hierarchy model’ takes the limited available evidence on the structure of firm hierarchies and generalizes it … conduct the first quantitative investigation of hierarchy’s effect on income distribution. I find that hierarchy plays a …

. The idea is that US firms have systematically redistributed income to the top of the corporate hierarchy. I test this … hypothesis using a large scale hierarchy model of the US private sector. My method is to vary the rate that income scales with …

hierarchy. In short, I hypothesize that capitalist income stems from hierarchical power. Based on this thinking, I hypothesize …

energy use, hierarchy, and inequality. To do this, I create a large-scale numerical model that is informed by modern evidence …