'Quiet' and 'loud' elites: the visibility of economic power in the UK

Acknowledgements: We thank colleagues from the World Elite Database project, for their guidance on our sample selection strategy, and for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper. We also thank participants at the LSE ‘wealth and elites’ reading group co-ordinated by Annette Lareau in spring 2024 for their very helpful early feedback. We thank Michael Vaughan for his advice on reporting our analysis of media sources and the three referees for their astute comments on our initial submission.