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A few points on the prehistory of inequality
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A few points on the prehistory of inequality

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Carl Beijer
Jul 12, 2015
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Not to be outdone by Thomas Piketty and his treatise against inequality, Ian Morris, writing for the New York Times, claims to have discovered “even deeper insights”: namely, that “each age has gotten the inequality it needs, different economic systems functioning best with different levels of inequality.”

This seems like an extraordinary claim until you…

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