What we can learn from the inequality revolution in prehistory?

Samuel Bowles and Mattia Fochesato in this voxeu post do a deep dive on inequality: Wealth disparities among hunter-gatherers and farmers in Neolithic western Eurasia (11,700 to 5,300 years ago) were less substantial than the inequalities of the past five millennia, owing to a culture of ‘aggressive egalitarianism’ that thwarted the emergence of enduring wealth […]

Author Of article : Amol Agrawal

Read full article