Iacono, Roberto (2018) Book review: the great leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the stone age to the twenty-first century by Walter Scheidel. LSE Review of Books (23 Feb 2018). Website.
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In The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, Walter Scheidel offers an account of how ‘Four Horsemen’ – warfare; revolution; state collapse; and pandemics – have been the primary mode through which income levelling has occurred throughout history. While this is a key contribution to the study of inequality, Roberto Iacono hopes it will inspire scholars to highlight alternative paths and interpretations based on peaceful levelling.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2018 16:02 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 17:44 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/88557 |
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