The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691271842ISBN-10:691271844UPC:9780691271842Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:World, Economic History, Social HistorySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCSF4KGDK2
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history
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 inequality never dies peacefully....Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691271842ISBN-10:691271844UPC:9780691271842Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:World, Economic History, Social HistorySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCSF4KGDK2
Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. The author or editor of sixteen previous books, he has published widely on premodern social and economic history, demography, and comparative history. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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