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. I...
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Main Authors: | Scheidel, Walter |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: | Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2017] |
Series: | The Princeton economic history of the Western world
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Online Access: | rezensiert in: sehepunkte 18 (2018), Nr. 7/8 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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Institute for Contemporary History (Munich) | 00/17.1196 Magazin |
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rezensiert in: sehepunkte 18 (2018), Nr. 7/8 |
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