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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 it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691183251
ISBN-10: 0691183252
Publication Date: 9/18/2018
Pages: 528
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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