I like Glaser's "Class as a Normative Category". I'm interested to hear others' thoughts on the metrics of hierarchy, and if this is really an exhaustive list of what egalitarians should be trying to make (more) equal. Political theorizing often seems like disconnected conceptual alphabet soup, and I like the way Glaser attempts to give structure to a mess of really important, but often poorly ...

The perpetuation of a family’s position in the distribution of income from parents to children reflects the genetic and cultural transmission of individual traits, as well as the inheritance of group memberships and income-earning assets. We show that the extent of intergenerational economic status transmission is considerably greater than was thought to be the case a generation ago, the geneti...

There is substantial evidence that voters’ choices are shaped by assessments of the state economy and these assessments, in turn, influenced news. But how does economic news track welfare different income groups an era rising inequality? Whose cover? Drawing on a large new dataset US content, we demonstrate tone strongly disproportionately tracks fortunes richest households, with little sensiti...

This paper argues that a focus on the middle groups in a multi-dimensional socioeconomic ordering can provide valuable insights into how different axes of advantage and disadvantage intersect with each other. It develops the elements of a framework to analyse the middle groups through an intersectional analysis, and uses it to explore how such groups leverage economic class or gender advantages...

The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values between a hard-working and thrifty middle class and an upper class imbued with disdain for work. We propose an economi...

Recently, applications of cooperative game theory to economic allocation problems have gained popularity. We investigate a class of cooperative games that generalizes some economic applications with a similar structure. These are the so-called line-graph games being cooperative TU-games in which the players are linearly ordered. Examples of situations that can be modeled like this are sequencin...