The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 019757596X
• ISBN-13: 9780197575963
• Author: Jon D. Wisman

Argues that the struggle over income, wealth, status and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides a novel framework for understanding inequality todayWhereas President Barack Obama declared inequality as the defining issue of our time, in The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality, Jon D. Wisman claims more: it is the defining issue of all human history. The struggle over inequality has been the underlying force driving human history’s unfolding. Drawing on the dynamics of inequality, Wisman re-interprets economic history and society. Beyond according inequality the central role in history, this book is novel in two other respects: First, transcending the general failure of social scientists and historians to anchor their work in explicit theories of human behaviour, this book grounds the origins and dynamics of inequality in evolutionary psychology, or more specifically, Darwin’s theory of sexual selection. Second, this book accords central importance to ideology in legitimating inequality, a role typically inadequately addressed by social scientists and historians. Because of the central role of inequality in history, inequality’s explosion over the past forty years has not been an anomaly.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Inequality, Sex, Politics, and Ideology
2. Blame It on Sex
3. From Aboriginal Equality to Limited and Unstable Inequality
4. The Dynamics of Religious Legitimation
5. The State, Civilization, and Extreme Inequality
6. The Critical Break: The Bourgeoisie Unchained
7. Theological Revolution and the Idea of Equality
8. The Shift toward Secular Ideology
9. Workers Gain Formal Political Power
10. From American Exceptionalism to the Great Compression
11. Simon Kuznets’s Happy Prognosis Crushed in an Ideological Coup
12. Inequality, Conspicuous Consumption, and the Growth Trap
13. The Problem Is Inequality, Not Private Property and Markets
14. What Future for Inequality?

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