Walter Scheidel
@walterscheidel.bsky.social
Historian @ Stanford | https://sites.google.com/view/walterscheidel/home
The final 2011 version is a classic, and their concepts of IPF and IER (already acknowledged in Scheidel & Friesen) are of critical importance to our understanding of what inequality meant at very different levels of development: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...:
Pre‐Industrial Inequality*
Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes as unequal as they are today? This article infers inequality across individuals within each of the 28 pr...
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July 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The final 2011 version is a classic, and their concepts of IPF and IER (already acknowledged in Scheidel & Friesen) are of critical importance to our understanding of what inequality meant at very different levels of development: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...:
(1) Yes, (2) probably not.
April 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
(1) Yes, (2) probably not.
Sounds like my buddy Voltaire’s quip about the Holy Roman Empire not being holy, Roman or an empire. I’d see quite a big difference between post-Roman emperors in search of a functioning empire and what happened in China…
January 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Sounds like my buddy Voltaire’s quip about the Holy Roman Empire not being holy, Roman or an empire. I’d see quite a big difference between post-Roman emperors in search of a functioning empire and what happened in China…
But what have we argued?
January 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
But what have we argued?
“Shaped” (a long time ago — 1900-1969), not “shapes”…
December 31, 2024 at 4:40 AM
“Shaped” (a long time ago — 1900-1969), not “shapes”…
The “Air France Flight 4590 Effect”? (I still prefer Concorde effect to sunk cost, sounds much more elegant and, well, apt.)
December 18, 2024 at 5:18 PM
The “Air France Flight 4590 Effect”? (I still prefer Concorde effect to sunk cost, sounds much more elegant and, well, apt.)
The way is the goal.
November 17, 2024 at 5:50 PM
The way is the goal.
Mostly thanks to the Franks ;-)
October 31, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Mostly thanks to the Franks ;-)
In WIAH I question the obsession with “mastery” as an obstacle to globalizing work; and what do I see in the fourth sentence of this review? “Mastery” and all the rest of it. Oh boy.
October 29, 2024 at 4:45 PM
In WIAH I question the obsession with “mastery” as an obstacle to globalizing work; and what do I see in the fourth sentence of this review? “Mastery” and all the rest of it. Oh boy.