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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)
The Great Leveler Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the TwentyFirst Century - The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Author: Walter Scheidel
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. Periods of increased equality are usually born of carn...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691165028
ISBN-10: 0691165025
Publication Date: 1/17/2017
Pages: 520
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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