The great leveler : violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century / 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. Inequa...
| Uniform Title: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 504 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
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