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.

For all that it purports to say, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fails to explain anything relevant about the world.

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

I’ve been asked to create panels for the upcoming International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0. The conference aims to bring natural and social sciences closer. It will take place at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA from June 22-24, 2020. I’m calling the panel(s) Energy, Institutions and Society . I’m looking for research that connects energy to the structure of human society.

Here are ten tips for making your research open to fellow scientists.

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

If you’re good at something that isn’t valued by other people, you won’t be rewarded. This is the tyranny of meritocracy.