hierarchical power - the command of subordinates in a hierarchy - is what distinguishes the rich from the poor and capitalists from … workers. Specifically, I hypothesize that individual income increases with hierarchical power, as does the share of individual … extrapolates the CEO data. The results indicate that income tends to increase with hierarchical power, as does the capitalist …

According to Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan capital is not an economic quantity but a mode of power; it could be … sumarized as: "Capital is power quantified in monetary terms". So, what do we do when we "quantify"? What is the nature of … "money" in a capitalist society? And, indeed, what is "power" in the first place? In the following I will try to develop a …

This paper offers a new approach to the study of capitalist income. Building on the "capital as power" framework, I … hierarchy. In short, I hypothesize that capitalist income stems from hierarchical power. Based on this thinking, I hypothesize … that the capitalist fraction of an individual's income is a gradient function of hierarchical power (which I define as the …

This paper proposes a new "power theory" of personal income distribution. Contrary to the standard assumption that … income is proportional to productivity, I hypothesize that income is most strongly determined by social power, as indicated … income and power, this paper is the first to quantify this relation. I propose that power can be quantified in terms of the …

. What makes the rich different, I propose, is hierarchical power. The rich command hierarchies. The poor do not. It is this … evidence from US CEOs. I find that the relative income of CEOs increases with their hierarchical power, as does the capitalist … portion of their income. This suggests that among CEOs, both income size and income class relate to hierarchical power. I then …

incomes follow a power-law distribution, and the redistribution of income corresponds to a change in the power-law exponent … first developed by Herbert Simon and Harold Lydall, I show that hierarchy can explain the power-law distribution of top …

building and fortifying power hierarchies - or 'megamachines', as he called them. Controlling these megamachines, Mumford …

the power-law scaling of top incomes. Moreover, I find that hierarchy can be used to unify the study of personal and …