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How only violence and catastrophes have
consistently reduced inequality throughout
world historyAre 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. Inequality
declines when carnage and disaster strike
and increases when peace and stability return.
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.Ever since humans began
to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their
assets to future generations, economic inequality
has been a defining feature of civilization.
Over thousands of years, only violent events have
significantly lessened inequality.
The quotFouHorsemenquotof leveling8213mas-mobi
lization warfare, transformative revolutions,
state collapse, and catastrophic plagues8213hae
repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich.
Scheidel identifies and examines these processes,
from the crises of the earliest civilizations to
the cataclysmic world wars and communist
revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the
violence that reduced inequality in the past
seems to have diminished, and that is a good
thing. But it casts serious doubt on the
prospects for a more equal future.An essential
contribution to the debate about inequality, The
Great Leveler provides important new insights
about why inequality is so persistent8213an why
it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.