- Apr 2019
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qz.com qz.com
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State failure is an even less desirable way of leveling compared to the others because everyone is objectively poorer—it’s just the differences are wiped out.
I think this is interesting because it offers a model in which destruction of previous system relates to more equality generated .
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Today’s levels of inequality aren’t unprecedented, Scheidel notes. The share of income owned by the wealthiest Americans has only recently risen to levels last seen in 1929. In the UK, the richest 10% held more than 90% of all private wealth before the First World War; today, it’s a little more than half.
I want to know more about this: is it true that countries around the globe homogeneously experience decrease in inequality during war or disease period?
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- Mar 2019
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www.exurbe.com www.exurbe.com
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Early Greek sources talk about a Golden Age of peaceful, pastoral abundance, followed by a Silver Age, when jewels and luxuries made life more opulent but also more complicated. There followed a Bronze Age, when weapons and guards appeared, and also the hierarchy of have and have-nots, and finally an Iron Age of blood and war and Troy
Does this suggest that history can be viewed as an zero-sum game; when certain progress is made, compensations are also created?
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but if we study only the keystones, and not the other less conspicuous bricks, we wind up with a very distorted idea of the whole edifice.
Now we recognized...:)
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In other words, this approach presumes a teleology to history, that human societies have always been developing toward some pre-set end state: apple seeds into apple trees, humans into enlightened humans, human societies into liberal democratic paradises.
Aren't whig historians travestying the ideas of enlightenment thinkers?
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- Jan 2019
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doc-0o-bs-docs.googleusercontent.com doc-0o-bs-docs.googleusercontent.com
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The right to property being inviolable and sacred, no one ought to be deprived of it, except in cases of evident public necessity, legally ascertained, and on condition of a previous just indemnity
This ensures people having economic life; however, it does not limit the extent of government's agency in people's economic life.
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Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights
This right based on the Lockean idea that man's rights such as life, liberty and property are born equal naturally.
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The law ought to prohibit only actions hurtful to societ
The Law is created to protect everybody's right not being hurt, and one's right should be limited if the exercise of it hurts another.
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The end of all political associations, is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man
This is one of the Lockean ideas that government is created by people for the sole purpose of ensuring the welfare of the people. Thus, government failed to fulfill this purpose (oppression) can be resisted (resistance) by the people.
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- Dec 2018
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www.wm.edu www.wm.edu
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In April 2018, a plaque honoring W&M’s first African-American residential students was mounted at the Wren Building as part of the university’s 50th anniversary commemoration of those students. That same month, the Board of Visitors issued a resolution apologizing for the university’s history of slavery and racial discrimination
The history of enslaved does not only racialized the system, but also has profound impact in the Africa itself. Consider to do something in the actual African countries.
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www.smithsonianmag.com www.smithsonianmag.com
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How can a historian proves something to be untrue, when his or her own work or opinion is merely a narrative of the past?
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For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market.
Does the article undermines this viewpoint? The article's claim that the impact of tulipmania to the Hollands is minor does not means it didn't bring about new ideas.
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This explosion in international commerce brought enormous fortune to the Netherlands, despite the war. In their newly independent nation, the Dutch were mainly led by urban oligarchies comprised of wealthy merchants, unlike other European countries of the era, which were controlled by landed nobility.
Although the impact of Tulip-mania is debatable, both FTMW and the article points out the larger historical context in Netherland for Tulip mania to occur–the increase in foreign commerce. It is not as vital to discuss the impact of event as to realize the new economic ideas created during Tulip mania in need of the increasing global commerce, such as the use of contracts, basing trades on “credit and debt”. The trade itself provides new possibilities for the civilians to increase their wealth, while in the process, introduces new concepts on the definition of wealth, such as “future credits”.
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- Oct 2018
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waldo.jaquith.org waldo.jaquith.org
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A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society.
Here, "a cheeseburger" can be the representation of agency; "...highly developed agrarian society", the most suitable historical context. In other words, throughout the course of history, if human agency were to be maximized, it must have encountered the most suitable historical context. For instance, Belgium's resistance at the beginning of the first world war may not be as vital if Germany did not execute the foul plan of Schlieffen. Equally, if a not-so-successful Olympic swimmer nowadays were to travel back in time, he probably would get the gold medals. Even if he really were to exist in the past, he would unlikely to be as fast as he will be in today's world, as the techniques for swimming in the past was not as advance as those today.
Nevertheless, it needs to be clarify that the existence of a cheeseburger is brought about because the most suitable historical context gives the largest possibility for cheeseburgers to exist and thrive. One should not think that cheeseburgers have the ability identifying the historical context suitable for themselves. It is this age of mass production and redistribution of resources that gives cheeseburgers the chance to emerge. Hence, be grateful for cheeseburgers; this shows your respect to this sophisticated era.
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