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The Great Leveler

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Great Leveler

By Walter Scheidel

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About the book

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling--mass-mobilization warfar...Show more

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9780691183251

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2018

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