The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From the Stone age to the Twenty-First Century [Audiobook] download free by Walter Scheidel
- Listen audiobook: The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From the Stone age to the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Walter Scheidel
- Release date: 2018/1/16
- Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780691183251
- Rating: 9.94 of 10
- Votes: 531
- Review by: Jordan Palacios
- Review rating: 9.44 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/26
- Duration: 6H43M8S in 256 kbps (105.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-25
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, MPEG4, MPEG-4 ALS, WMA, FLAC (compression CPIO, ZIP, BZ2, TAR.XZ, TAR.LZO, TAR.7Z, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 528
- Includes a PDF summary of 56 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 40M45S (11.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Welfare Economics, Social & Cultural History, Economics, Social Classes, Population & Demography, General & World History, Violence In Society, Financial Crises & Disasters
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 22.80 USD
- Dimensions: 133x203x38.1mm
- Weight: 498.95g
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- Published in: New Jersey, United States
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