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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

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 â€œFour Horsemenâ€ of levelingâ€”mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plaguesâ€”have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistentâ€”and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.

Country	USA
Author	Walter Scheidel
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780691184319
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Princeton University Press
Manufacturer	Princeton University Press
NumberOfPages	536
PublicationDate	2018-09-18
Publisher	Princeton University Press
ReleaseDate	2018-09-18
Studio	Princeton University Press

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

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