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The Great Leveler

Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

2018 || Paperback || Walter Scheidel || Princeton University Press

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.

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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

How Human Values Evolve

2017 || Paperback || Ian Morris || Princeton University Press

Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in