Great Leveler
Great Leveler Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel…
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Great Leveler
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes.
The "Four Horsemen" of leveling--mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues--have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. 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. 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
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