.@ErikBerglof introduces Philippe Roman Chair Ian Morris for #LSEMorris lecture Watch live: http://bit.ly/1RiMIvY pic.twitter.com/dX40SH8wKe
Looking forward to Prof Ian Morris inequality and energy use @LSEpublicevents #LSEMorris pic.twitter.com/bvu8UbATE2- #LSEmorris Each age gets the inequalities it needs
Professor Ian Morris talks about #inequality and #hierarchy through the ages @lseideas #LSEMorris pic.twitter.com/GJUDiJxZ6y- Ian Morris already covered @Airbnb living like an oligarch, gender inequality in Greek peasants & angry monkeys @LSEpublicevents #LSEMorris
Are values of fairness 'hard-wired' through evolution? Or culturally created? Morris says both & neither #LSEMorris pic.twitter.com/wOcU7KcRui
#LSEMorris: all human values are in three realm that political, gender, wealth inequalities are bad. pic.twitter.com/ve2955fm45- Morris: values of political, gender, & wealth inequality shaped by how societies capture energy: foragers, farmers, fossil fuels #LSEMorris
Each Age Gets the Inequality it Needs: 20,000 years of hierarchy @lseideas #LSEMorris pic.twitter.com/RF4t3W2ua3- 3 types of human societies: foragers; farmers; fossil fuelers. Based on fairness sense & constrained by ways of extract. energy #LSEMorris
- Morris: Fairness is a "hard-wired" human value. But societal diversity means idea of fairness is interpreted in different ways #LSEMorris
- The value of 'fairness' is hard-wired in humans and primates. However, as anthropologists suggest, "what is fair?" differs. #LSEMorris
- Foragers get little energy; live in small scale nomadic societies. Accumulation impossibile & upstarts are repressed #LSEMorris
- Morris: As society captures greater amounts of energy they need to mobilise labour for infrastructure, requiring more hierarchy #LSEMorris
- Farmers' societies are large & require coordination and coercion. eg. slavery in ancient Rome #LSEMorris
Professor Morris #fairness has different meanings, depending #societies shape & #energy amount extracted #LSEMorris pic.twitter.com/6Z17ewaYEy- Morris: triumph of egalitarianism since industrial revolution has been by far the fastest change in hierarchy throughout history #LSEMorris
- Both market and centrally planned economies are/were varieties of fossil fueler-cooperation: relatively inequality-averse #LSEMorris
- Inefficient societies are driven to extinction. Hence each age gets the inequalities it needs #LSEMorris
- Morris: Long term historical change suggest China will liberalise to become richer more than rest of world becomes like China #LSEMorris
Professor Ian Morris @lseideas says each age has an adequate level of #inequality #LSMorris #Evolution pic.twitter.com/lDZfkl71Ja
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