energy use, hierarchy, and inequality. To do this, I create a large-scale numerical model that is informed by modern evidence …

by one’s position within an institutional hierarchy. While many theorists have proposed a connection between personal … number of subordinates below one’s position in a hierarchy. Using this definition, I find that relative income within firms …

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 … conduct the first quantitative investigation of hierarchy’s effect on income distribution. I find that hierarchy plays a …

hierarchical power - the command of subordinates in a hierarchy - is what distinguishes the rich from the poor and capitalists from …

, by using hierarchical organization. To test these conflicting theories, I investigate how the ‘degree of hierarchy’ in …

hierarchy. As societies consume more energy, they tend to become more hierarchical. At the same time, the growth of hierarchy … between energy, hierarchy and inequality. I then speculate about what it implies for achieving a sustainable and equitable …

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

. 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 …