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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

Only catastrophe truly reduces inequality, according to a historical survey

Walter Scheidel, Princeton University Press, 2017-01-24
ISBN:9780691165028
Language: English

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