Chair Erik Berglof (Director of the LSE Institute of Global Affairs) takes questions from the audience for Philippe Roman Chair Ian Morris.
Through most of history, humans lived in tiny foraging bands with very low political, economic and gender hierarchy.
In his final Philippe Roman Chair lecture, Ian Morrisexplains how the way a society produces energy creates the 'right' amount of inequality for it to thrive, from foraging groups to the Roman Empire.
Using the method of long term history, Morris also asks what technology will mean for the future of inequality.
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Event recorded 15 March 2016