The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
(Part of the The Princeton Economic History of the Western World Series)
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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. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691165025
ISBN13:9780691165028
Release Date:January 2017
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:536 Pages
Weight:2.02 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"
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