The Great Leveler : Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century /

"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. I...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Scheidel, Walter, 1966- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Text in English.
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Series:	Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Subjects:	Fremder Feind. Equality > History. Violence > History. Equality. Violence. Ungleichheit. Einkommensverteilung. Zerstörung. Verteilungsgerechtigkeit. Umweltkatastrophe. HISTORY / World. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. HISTORY / Social History. History.
Online Access:	Introduction available via publisher's Web site