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Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
Taschenbuch von Walter Scheidel
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. The author or editor of sixteen previous books, he has published widely on premodern social and economic history, demography, and comparative history. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691183251
ISBN-10: 0691183252
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Scheidel, Walter
Redaktion: Mokyr, Joel
Hersteller: Princeton Univers. Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 45 b&w illus.
Maße: 203 x 133 x 50 mm
Von/Mit: Walter Scheidel
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2018
Gewicht: 0,518 kg
Artikel-ID: 112898367
Über den Autor
Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. The author or editor of sixteen previous books, he has published widely on premodern social and economic history, demography, and comparative history. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691183251
ISBN-10: 0691183252
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Scheidel, Walter
Redaktion: Mokyr, Joel
Hersteller: Princeton Univers. Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 45 b&w illus.
Maße: 203 x 133 x 50 mm
Von/Mit: Walter Scheidel
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2018
Gewicht: 0,518 kg
Artikel-ID: 112898367
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