But it was always vulnerable to what Mr Fukuyama calls "the bad emperor problem" as well as to the hardwired human tendency to make ties of kinship the primary criterion for conferring wealth, power and status.
When appropriate, he intervenes — an early example of the celebrity as a magical figure, able to confer health, wealth and happiness on everyday mortals.
The single farm payment is a non-labour source of income thereby conferring a wealth advantage rising with the size of payment (Femenia et al. 2010).
Having coworkers on your side confers a wealth of benefits.
In turn, forming an alliance with a prestigious brand can confer not just wealth but glamour on the stars.
Only a minority of Southern families owned slaves, but the wealth conferred upon this minority, according to Republicans, meant that they formed an aristocracy that ruled the South with a rod of iron and that was trying to achieve similar control over the nation as a whole.
Ownership of productive wealth confers no real benefit except future security until it provides an opportunity to consume.
For him, the best thing about being rich is the ability wealth confers to behave badly with impunity, especially toward those who most thoroughly disdain him: the Republican establishment that created him, suicidally underestimated him, and now has not a clue of how to scrape him off its shoe.
Consistent with the bivariate association wealth confers higher life quality with the top three quintiles particularly and significantly higher than the rest.
However, the reverse SES gradient for breast cancer, with wealth conferring greater risk, flattens the slope of women's SES gradient for mortality, overall.
