The great leveler : violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century

"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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Auteur principal : Scheidel Walter (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The great leveler : violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century / Walter Scheidel
Publié : Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford : Princeton University Press , copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVII-504 p.)
Collection : The Princeton economic history of the Western world
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