How research covering more than 5,000 years sheds light on income inequality today
HomeEditors' Picks How research covering more than 5,000 years sheds light on income inequality today How research covering more than 5,000 years sheds light on income inequality today By Clark Merrefield Tuesday May 11, 2021 (Image: Adobe/yezep) King Menes unified Egypt around 5,000 years ago, making it among the world’s first central governments. Millennia later, Namibia, on the southwest coast of Africa, was under German then South African rule until 1990, when its independent government was formed. Egypt’s history of statehood is old and Namibia’s is new, yet both countries have t...