I discuss my research on income and hierarchy with Steve Keen and Phil Dobbie

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When it comes to income, economists ask the wrong question. So they get the wrong answer.

I use the Ontario Sunshine List to shed light on how income grows with hierarchical rank.

The ‘productivity-pay gap’ has nothing to do with productivity. Here’s why.

What’s your ‘productivity’ when you use a bullshit job as a front to do something creative?

Income in the US military follows the power ethos — to each according to their social influence.

In the US military, returns to education are mediated almost completely by hierarchical rank.

Economists purge the social environment from their theory of human behavior. Here’s why this is a mistake.

Wages correlate with firms’ sales per worker. Does this mean that productivity explains wages? The answer is no.