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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scheidel, Walter, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Series:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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