Walter Scheidel, “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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In 2017 half of the world’s wealth belongs to the top 1% of the population. In his new book, The Great Leveler Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2017), Walter Scheidel explores economic inequality and sets forth the provocative...