The Great Leveler

Name: The Great Leveler
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874985The Great Levelerhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-great-leveler-2/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/516240/4c785c33-179c-4832-93fa-12d21bf2d884.jpg?v=638548180840300000264367MXNPrinceton University PressInStock/Ebooks/How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre 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. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. 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.Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of levelingmass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagueshave repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. 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 persistentand why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon....874152The Great Leveler264367https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-great-leveler-2/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/516240/4c785c33-179c-4832-93fa-12d21bf2d884.jpg?v=638548180840300000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20189780691184319_W3siaWQiOiI2YTFiMmVmNC1kMmE5LTQwZGYtYWI3ZS0wZDc1YjgwMjkwNGEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM2NywiZGlzY291bnQiOjEwMywic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjoyNjQsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI1LTA3LTE3VDEzOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9780691184319_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 levelingmass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagueshave 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 persistentand why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.(*_*)9780691184319_How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre 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. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. 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.Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of levelingmass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagueshave repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. 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 persistentand why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon....9780691184319_Princeton University Presslibro_electonico_c928e289-c8a2-3071-86ff-9e6bcacc8772_9780691184319;9780691184319_9780691184319Walter ScheidelInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/princetonup-epub-5d96b987-35e1-46b7-8919-d9a8494de1e8.epub2018-09-18T00:00:00+00:00Princeton University Press