Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time

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marojejian · 13h ago

Overall this supports the general Theses of "The Dawn of Everything", while being more empirical and less idealogical.

essentially, inequality does correlate the the things you would expect, e.g.: hierarchy, population, external resources, autocracy. But... the variance swamps the correlation. There are lot of ways to organize society.

We have other options, should we choose to develop them.

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Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time

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