The No-Nonsense Guide to Equality

Inequality and homicide rates in affluent countries

Human discovery of the uses to which coal and oil could be put are very closely intertwined with falls and rises in equality – both those inequalities that began growing when coal-powered industrialization took shape and those that grew as cheap oil became scarce towards the e

Independent shocks and new thinking in Europe

Environmental degradation, religion and equality

From the early 1980s onwards, inequalities in India then soared upwards whereas in China they rose more steadily. N

How some rich countries recently set out to become more unequal

How one gain can lead to another

The House’s first African-American member was elected in 1870. The first Hispanic member took office in 1877, the first woman member in 1917, the first Asian-American member in 1957, and the first African-American woman member in 1969. In 2007, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California was elected as the first woman Speaker of the House.’1

Most of the easily available histories of ideas about equality begin with how, between two and three millennia ago, Athenians and others developed concepts of equality before the law, of respect and of free speech (as long as you were male, local and not a slave).

Equality matters for lovers because, i