Inequality
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The ubiquity of the rentier state
Disputing an article that says the Mughals made India rich, the author argues that Maddison’s data may be wrong and the Mughal state was highly extractive, since most pre-modern societies…
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Egalitarian/Equality and mobility in Society.
The poster shares excerpts from an article and its comments on inequality and social mobility, noting that mobility is highest where Scandinavian ancestry is common, and wonders whether the same…
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The lives of peasants
After a harrowing fiction extract, the author argues that peasants endure horrific conditions under globalisation, that elites must share if liberal democracy is to avoid armed revolution, and that dignity…
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Some charts from Human Development Report 2014
A set of charts from the 2014 Human Development Report, with captions on South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa lagging and the role of manufacturing.
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Snow-piercer
Prompted by the film Snowpiercer, in which an underclass revolts on a train, the author suggests the haves yield only when they lack offshore accounts and jokes about promises to…
