in the early fourteenth century, the average Cairene might consume a modest 1,154 calories per day, including 45.6 grams of protein and 20 grams of fat, but by the mid-fifteenth century was able to dispose of 1,930 calories, including 82 grams of protein and 45 grams of fat. (查看原文)
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to peaceful equalization Across a wide range of societiesand different levels of development, stability favoredeconomic inequality. This was as true of Pharaonic Egyptas it was of Victorian England, as true of the RomanEmpire as of the United States. Violent shocks were ofparamount importance in disrupting the establishedorder, in compressing the distribution of income andwealth, in narrowing the gap between rich and poorThroughout recorded history, the most powerful levelinginvariably resulted from the most powerful shocks. Fousdifferent kinds of violent ruptures have flattenedinequality: mass mobilization warfare, transformativerevolution, state failure, and lethal pandemics. I callthese the Four Hors... (查看原文)
作者: [美]沃尔特·沙伊德尔 副标题: 从石器时代到21世纪,人类如何应对不平等 原作名: The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century isbn: 7521704495 书名: 不平等社会 页数: 528 出品方: 万物, 中信·万物 译者:颜鹏飞 李酣 王今朝 曾召国 甘鸿鸣 刘和旺 定价: 98 出版社: 中信出版集团 出版年: 2019-6-1 装帧: 精装
