This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …

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 … by one's position within an institutional hierarchy. While many theorists have proposed a connection between personal …

. As we see it, the root of our ecological problems lies not in the "economy", but in the hierarchical power structure of …

. 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 …