Review by tcranenj - The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

A review by tcranenj
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

4.0

Short of mass mobilization for war, historic social upheaval, plague or flat out collapse of social/governmental institutions, income inequality is impossible to alleviate. Such is the case made by Walter Schneider. Not that we'd actually want any of these events to happen again, but the likely fact is that globalization along with technological and medical advances make any of these four scenarios exceedingly unlikely today and into the future. Conclusion - unless the future is noticeable different than 5000 years of history human history, we're either stuck with massive income inequality or we'll get leveling by forces too scary to conceive. Happy reading!

A review by tcranenj The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

A review by tcranenj
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel