Name: 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) (en Inglés)
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Author: Scheidel, Walter
ISBN: 9780691183251

portada 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) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Walter Scheidel

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

528

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.3 x 13.5 x 3.8 cm

Peso

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9780691183251

Categorías

Violencia y abusos en la sociedad
Clases sociales
Historia general y del mundo

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) (en Inglés)

Walter Scheidel (Autor) · Princeton University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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 of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling--mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues--have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. 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 provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent--and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.