This paper tracks the origins and inner changes of Barcelona's economic elite in the long term. The objective is to … of this elite, we focus in 81 families and exhaustively we have tracked down their origin and evolution. The conclusion …

a policy variable, and we study the evolution of state capacity when policy is chosen by an elite. We show that … democratization in the sense of expansion of the elite leads to an increased investment in state capacity and to a reduction in … illegal activities, and has non-monotonic effects on tax rates as it reduces the willingness of the elite to engage in …

described necessary and sufficient conditions for oligarchy and dictatorship results in social choice models that are nonbinary …