The great leveler : violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century / Walter Scheidel.
Scheidel, Walter, 1966- author.
2017
HM821 .S235 2017eb
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Title The great leveler : violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century / Walter Scheidel.
Author Scheidel, Walter, 1966- author.
ISBN 9781400884605 (electronic book)
9780691165028
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 504 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number HM821 .S235 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.42
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Introduction: The Challenge of Inequality
A Brief History Of Inequality. The Rise of Inequality
Empires of Inequality
Up and Down
War. Total War
The Great Compression
Preindustrial Warfare and Civil War
Revolution. Communism
Before Lenin
Collapse. State Failure and Systems Collapse
Plague. The Black Death
Pandemics, Famine, and War
Alternatives. Reform, Recession, and Representation
Economic Development and Education
What If ? From History to Counterfactuals
Inequality Redux And The Future Of Leveling.
In Our Time
What Does the Future Hold?
Appendix: The Limits of Inequality.

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