英国污染治理历史能否在中国复制？

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VOA Chinese, Apr 10, 2015.
www.voachinese.com/content/china-pollurion-20150410/2714036.html

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(a) “美国西北大学凯洛格商学院管理经济学和决策学教授尼可拉·佩尔西科（Nicola Persico）* * * 最近在财富杂志上发表文章说，英国工业革命孕育了这个国家的民主制度。1830年至1884年 '改革时代' 结束时，英国家庭男性户主获得选举权，国家民主化 '和谐进行，' 马克思阶级斗争预言没能实现。"

Nicola Persico, Fighting Pollution: What China Can Learn From Britain. Fortune, Mar 10, 2015 (blog).
fortune.com/2015/03/10/fighting-pollution-what-china-can-learn-from-britain/

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"In the 1729, Britain was in a similar position as today's China. Back then, the 'workshop of the world' was not China, but Manchester. * * * Manchester was so unsanitary that life expectancy at birth was only 27 years, compared to the British average of 41.

"Britain entered the industrial revolution as an oligarchy, and came out a democracy. By the time the ‘Age of Reform’ was over (1830-1884), all English male heads of households could vote. Despite Karl Marx’s prophesy [sic; in both British and American English, “prophesy” is a verb and  prophecy, a noun] of class struggle, this democratization happened peacefully. A reading of the historical evidence suggests that the democratization process was harmonious because environmental and health issues created elite support for it.

* “Age of Reform” is NOT a proper name in the history of any nation.

(b) "19世纪英国社会精英和当下中国精英之间存在差异，但是也存在社会结构上的相同之处。例如，就财富分布不平等而言，两国情况相差无几。以基尼系数为标准，两国的基尼系数都是0.5左右，这说明两国财富分布不等的情况很相近。"

Max Roser, Income Inequality. OurWorldInData.org, 2015.
ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-prosperity/income-inequality/

, where Figure 2 caption ("More than 700 Years of Income Inequality the UK (1290-2010) – Income Share of the Top 5% and Gini") contains top panel (whose heading is "Share of Total Income Going to the Top 5% of Income Earners; All series refer to pre-tax incomes") and bottom panel (heading: Gini Index; All series refer to pre-tax incomes").

The source, listed to the right of the Figure, is: Peter H Lindert, Chapter 3 Three centuries of inequality in Britain and America. In AB Atkinson and F Bourguignon (eds), Handbook of Income Distribution. vol 1 Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2000, pages 167-216.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574005600800068
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