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04311aam a2200505 i 4500 001 0855B6A4C48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230317010022 008 210808t20222022nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021031351 020 $a 0197575943 020 $a 9780197575949 035 $a (OCoLC)1264747362 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDX $d EAU $d NWQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HM821 $b .W57 2022 100 1 $a Wisman, Jon D., $d 1943- $e author. 245 14 $a The origins and dynamics of inequality : $b sex, politics, and ideology / $c Jon D. Wisman. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a ix, 507 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [463]-496) and index. 505 00 $g Introduction: $t What Future for Inequality? $t Blame it on Sex -- $t From Aboriginal Equality to Limited and Unstable Inequality -- $t The Dynamics of Religious Legitimation -- $t The State, Civilization, and Extreme Inequality -- $t The Critical Break : The Bourgeoisie Unchained -- $t Theological Revolution and the Idea of Equality -- $t The Shift Toward Secular Ideology -- $t Workers Gain Formal Political Power -- $t From American Exceptionalism to the Great Compression -- $t Simon Kuznets' Happy Prognosis Crushed in an Ideological Coup -- $t Inequality, Conspicuous Consumption, and the Growth Trap -- $t The Problem is Inequality, Not Private Property and Markets -- $t What Future for Inequality? 520 $a "Whereas President Barack Obama identified inequality as "the defining challenge of our time," this book 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, this book re-interprets history and society. Beyond according inequality the central role in human 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 is novel in according central importance to the critical historical role of ideology in legitimating inequality, a role typically ignored or given little attention by social scientists and historians. Because of the central role of inequality in history, inequality's explosion over the past 45 years has not been an anomaly. It is a return to the political dynamics by which elites have, since the rise of the state, taken practically everything for themselves, leaving all others with little more than the means with which to survive. Due to elites' persuasive ideology, even after workers in advanced capitalist countries gained the franchise to become the overwhelming majority of voters, inequality continued to increase. The anomaly is that the only intentional politically driven decline in inequality occurred between the 1930s and 1970s following the Great Depression's partial delegitimation of elites' ideology"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Equality $x History. 650 0 $a Ideology. 650 0 $a Secularism. 650 0 $a Power (Social sciences) 650 0 $a Evolutionary psychology. 650 0 $a Sexual selection. 650 6 $a Ideologie. 650 6 $a Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) 650 6 $a Psychologie evolutionniste. 650 6 $a Selection sexuelle. 650 7 $a ideology. $2 aat 650 7 $a Equality. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00914456 650 7 $a Evolutionary psychology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917348 650 7 $a Ideology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00966915 650 7 $a Power (Social sciences) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01074219 650 7 $a Secularism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01110732 650 7 $a Sexual selection. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01895362 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Wisman, Jon D., 1943- $t Origins and dynamics of inequality $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] $z 9780197575963 $w (DLC) 2021031352 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230317011100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0855B6A4C48911EDAC2163E35EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search