This article is devoted to an investigation of the forms of human capital that characterize cities at different levels of the US urban hierarchy. Basic data on human capital are drawn from the O*Net information system. A first analytical exercise shows that for the USA as a whole, occupations...

The New Chinese America explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of the Chinese American community, revealing the emergence of a new social hierarchy after the 1965 Immigration Act. Xiaojian Zhao uses class analysis to illuminate the difficulties of everyday survival for poor...

We model legal doctrine as an instrument of political control by higher courts over lower courts and the case outcomes they produce. We focus on the choice between determinate and indeterminate doctrines within a hierarchy of courts where political-ideological alignment between lower and higher...

This paper models the coalition formation process among primates as a sequential game. The population consists of primates having distinct social ranks. The rank of each individual is determined by his resource holding potential. Each member of the population is interested in gaining access to a...

Theory suggests that greater hierarchical distance between a subordinate and his boss makes it more difficult to share abstract and subjective information in decision making. A novel dataset put together from credit dossiers of large corporate loan applicants enables us to observe the...

Cooperative Game Theory -- The Core of a Cooperative Game -- Axiomatic Value Theory -- The Cooperative Potential -- Directed Communication Networks -- Cooperative Theories of Hierarchical Organizations