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Published
Princeton University Press, August 2018
ISBN
9780691183251
Format
Softcover, 528 pages
Dimensions
20.3cm × 13.3cm

The Great Leveler Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by

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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

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