A few points on the prehistory of inequality
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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