first developed by Herbert Simon and Harold Lydall, I show that hierarchy can explain the power-law distribution of top … incomes follow a power-law distribution, and the redistribution of income corresponds to a change in the power-law exponent …)distribution of top incomes is uniform because it is shaped by a ubiquitous feature of social life, namely hierarchy. Using a model …

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

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