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

作者 Walter Scheidel
出版社 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
商品描述 The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century:Aremassviolenceandcatastrophestheonlyforcesthatcanseri

內容簡介

內容簡介 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 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 seventeen previous books, he has published widely on premodern social and economic history, demography, and comparative history. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

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書名 / The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
作者 / Walter Scheidel
簡介 / The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century:Aremassviolenceandcatastrophestheonlyforcesthatcanseri
出版社 / PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN13 / 9780691183251
ISBN10 / 0691183252
EAN / 9780691183251
誠品26碼 / 2681751098003
頁數 / 528
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裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 20.3X13.5X3.8CM
級別 / N:無

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