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Assessed in light of the broad historical perspective in the overview given in Chapter 1, the empirical analysis of income hierarchies does not seem to measure up to the ambitious endeavor aiming at the identification of class patterns and their historical transformation. The present chapter is, however, much more than a technical introduction. It is the first component of a twofold inquiry into the nature of social relations: here with the empirical analysis, while the following chapters attend to the theory. The empirical analysis is based on the work of a team of economists and physicists, called econophysicists, regarding income