of social life: hierarchy and power asymmetry. While recent accounts posit that hierarchies can reduce within …-group conflict, individuals who possess high rank or power tend to show less cooperation. How, then, is cooperation achieved within … groups that contain power asymmetries? To address this question, the present research examines how relative power affects …

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 …