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
MoMath Brings Prime Numbers to a Prime New Location
After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhib…
