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

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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 inequality never dies peacefully. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scheidel, Walter, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Fremder Feind
Umweltkatastrophe
Verteilungsgerechtigkeit
Zerstörung
Einkommensverteilung
Ungleichheit
Violence.
Equality.
Distribution (Economic theory)
Epidemics > Economic aspects.
Equality > Economic aspects.
Income distribution.
Income distribution > Government policy.
Revolutions > Economic aspects.
Violence > Economic aspects.
War > Economic aspects.
Revenu > Repartition > Politique gouvernementale.
Justice distributive > Philosophie.
Repartition (Theorie economique)
États defaillants > Aspect economique > Histoire.
Revolutions > Aspect economique > Histoire.
Guerre > Aspect economique > Histoire.
Revenu > Repartition > Histoire.
Violence > Aspect economique > Histoire.
Distributive justice > Philosophy.
Epidemics > Economic aspects > History.
Failed states > Economic aspects > History.
Revolutions > Economic aspects > History.
War > Economic aspects > History.
Income distribution > History.
Violence > Economic aspects > History.
Equality > Economic aspects > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Challenge of Inequality
  • Part I: A Brief History of Inequality. The Rise of Inequality ; Empires of Inequality ; Up and Down
  • Part II: War. Total War ; The Great Compression ; Preindustrial Warfare and Civil War
  • Part III: Revolution. Communism ; Before Lenin
  • Part IV: Collapse. State Failure and Systems Collapse
  • Part V: Plague. The Black Death ; Pandemics, Famine, and War
  • Part VI: Alternatives. Reform, Recession, and Representation ; Economic Development and Education ; What If?: From History to Counterfactuals
  • Part VII: Inequality Redux and the Future of Leveling. In Our Time ; What Does the Future Hold?
  • Appendix : The Limits of Inequality.

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