. What makes the rich different, I propose, is hierarchical power. The rich command hierarchies. The poor do not. It is this … evidence from US CEOs. I find that the relative income of CEOs increases with their hierarchical power, as does the capitalist … portion of their income. This suggests that among CEOs, both income size and income class relate to hierarchical power. I then …

hierarchical power - the command of subordinates in a hierarchy - is what distinguishes the rich from the poor and capitalists from … workers. Specifically, I hypothesize that individual income increases with hierarchical power, as does the share of individual … extrapolates the CEO data. The results indicate that income tends to increase with hierarchical power, as does the capitalist …

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 …