{"product_id":"the-origins-and-dynamics-of-jon-d-wisman-9780197575949","title":"The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArgues that the struggle over income, wealth, status and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides a novel framework for understanding inequality today \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWhereas President Barack Obama declared inequality as the defining issue of our time, in \u003cem\u003eThe Origins and Dynamics of Inequality\u003c\/em\u003e, Jon D. Wisman claims more: it is the defining issue of all human history. The struggle over inequality has been the underlying force driving human history's unfolding. Drawing on the dynamics of inequality, Wisman re-interprets economic history and society. Beyond according inequality the central role in history, this book is novel in two other respects: First, transcending the general failure of social scientists and historians to anchor their work in explicit theories of human behaviour, this book grounds the origins and dynamics of inequality in evolutionary psychology, or more specifically, Darwin's theory of sexual selection. Second, this book accords central importance to ideology in legitimating inequality, a role typically inadequately addressed by social scientists and historians. Because of the central role of inequality in history, inequality's explosion over the past forty years has not been an anomaly. It is a return to the political dynamics by which elites have, since the rise of the state, taken practically everything for themselves, leaving all others with little more than the means with which to survive. Due to elites' persuasive ideology, even after workers in advanced capitalist countries gained the franchise to become the overwhelming majority of voters, inequality continued to increase. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSweeping and provocative, Jon D. Wisman presents a fresh perspective on why economic inequality exists and how its dynamics have shaped human history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon D. Wisman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197575943\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197575949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.48w x 1.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2023","brand":"Jon D. Wisman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988614578431,"sku":"9780197575949","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8f88300-ee7d-46d3-83b2-28cd81fe3a12.jpg?v=1683295412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-origins-and-dynamics-of-jon-d-wisman-9780197575949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}