Artikel
Energy, Hierarchy and the Origin of Inequality
Where should we look to understand the origin of inequality? I propose an unusual window of evidence—modern societies. I hypothesize that evidence for the origin of inequality is encoded in the institutional structure of industrial societies. To test this idea, I use a model to project modern trends into the past. This model takes the modern relation between energy, hierarchy, and inequality and creates a hindcast of the origin of inequality. The results are broadly consistent with the available evidence. The model predicts an explosion of inequality with the transition from hunter-gathering to agriculture, followed by a plateau. This finding potentially opens a new window of evidence into the origin of inequality.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: PLoS ONE ; ISSN: 1932-6203 ; Volume: 14 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 4, April ; Pages: 1-32 ; San Francisco, CA: PLOS
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Energy; Environment
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Natural Resources; Energy; Environment
Other Economic Systems: Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies
Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
- Thema
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energy
hierarchy
inequality
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fix, Blair
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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PLOS
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San Francisco, CA
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0215692
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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- Fix, Blair
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- 2019
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