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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel (Hardcover, 2017)

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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 strike and increases when peace and stability return. 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. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The Four Horsemen of leveling--mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues--have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. 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 persistent--and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-13
9780691165028
eBay Product ID (ePID)
231477213

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Subject Area
Human Biology
Author
Walter Scheidel
Publication Name
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Economics, Geography & Geosciences, History
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
536 Pages

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235mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
851g

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Title_Author
Walter Scheidel
Series Title
The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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