{"id":9471,"date":"2023-03-16T01:53:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T01:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/is-the-trend-towards-equality-that-occurred-after-the-first-industrial-revolution-a-fluke\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T01:53:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T01:53:11","slug":"is-the-trend-towards-equality-that-occurred-after-the-first-industrial-revolution-a-fluke","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/is-the-trend-towards-equality-that-occurred-after-the-first-industrial-revolution-a-fluke\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the trend towards equality that occurred after the first industrial revolution a fluke?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Question:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Is the trend towards equality that occurred after the first industrial revolution a fluke?<\/div>\n<div>Per Piketty, over the past two hundred years, the human condition has improved.<\/div>\n<div>Mortality and literacy has increased; slavery has largely been abolished; concentrations of wealth have lessened, and the middle class is the largest socio-economic grouping.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Using between 1300-1500 words (4-6 double-spaced pages), explain how this has happened. Towards this end, discuss the following elements described in Piketty&#8217;s A Brief History of Equality. Your only. references should be to Piketty and Gordon.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Questions to Answer In This Deep&nbsp;<span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-family: var(--ion-font-family, inherit); text-align: initial;\">Dive<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-family: var(--ion-font-family, inherit); text-align: initial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>How did colonialism allow&nbsp;<span style=\"color: var(--color-1); font-family: var(--ion-font-family, inherit); text-align: initial;\">Great Britain and Europe to ascend to economic and military global dominance?<\/span><\/div>\n<div>What was the US role in colonialism?<\/div>\n<div>What brought an end to colonialism?<\/div>\n<div>Why were colonizers compensated rather than the populations they exploited?<\/div>\n<div>How and why did the middle class develop?<\/div>\n<div>How did the United States surplant Great Britain on the world stage?<\/div>\n<div>What does Piketty mean by the Great Redistribution?<\/div>\n<div>How has education contributed to growing equality?<\/div>\n<div>What is the colonial legacy and the role that reparations played in this legacy?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:&nbsp; Is the trend towards equality that occurred after the first industrial revolution a fluke? Per Piketty, over the past two hundred years, the human condition has improved. Mortality and literacy has increased; slavery has largely been abolished; concentrations of wealth have lessened, and the middle class is the largest socio-economic grouping. Using between 1300-1500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[196],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=9471"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=9471"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=9471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}