Comments on: Book review – The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century/2018/04/17/book-review-the-great-leveler-violence-and-the-history-of-inequality-from-the-stone-age-to-the-twenty-first-century/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:34:05 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/04/17/book-review-the-great-leveler-violence-and-the-history-of-inequality-from-the-stone-age-to-the-twenty-first-century/comment-page-1/#comment-95245Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:34:05 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-95245[…] as with every struggle for social and ecological justice in history” (p. 242). Given Walter Scheidel’s work that suggests that, historically, economic inequality has never died peacefully, I worry that this […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Complete History of the Black Death (Second Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/04/17/book-review-the-great-leveler-violence-and-the-history-of-inequality-from-the-stone-age-to-the-twenty-first-century/comment-page-1/#comment-58767Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:13:26 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-58767[…] on in passing. If you were hoping for a well-rounded introduction that also includes, say, the economic, cultural, and religious impacts, or the interactions between disease, climatic changes, and wars, […]

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]]>By: Book review – Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/04/17/book-review-the-great-leveler-violence-and-the-history-of-inequality-from-the-stone-age-to-the-twenty-first-century/comment-page-1/#comment-18482Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:41:51 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-18482[…] with way too many interests, history being one of them. That, and I have reviewed and enjoyed two of Scheidel’s previous books. It is therefore all the more to his credit that I had no […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/04/17/book-review-the-great-leveler-violence-and-the-history-of-inequality-from-the-stone-age-to-the-twenty-first-century/comment-page-1/#comment-9943Thu, 28 May 2020 10:36:23 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-9943[…] Thomas Piketty considers this era of affluence a statistical anomaly and some even suggest that violence and catastrophes are the only mechanisms to have historically levelled the economic playing […]

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]]>By: Book review – Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed its Meaning and Lost its Purpose | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/04/17/book-review-the-great-leveler-violence-and-the-history-of-inequality-from-the-stone-age-to-the-twenty-first-century/comment-page-1/#comment-8713Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:09:59 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-8713[…] not invent their democracy overnight either. The alternative, as became apparent when I reviewed The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Cen…, is that it ends in tears when bloody wars or insurrections level the playing […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century via /r/economy | Chet Wang/2018/04/17/book-review-the-great-leveler-violence-and-the-history-of-inequality-from-the-stone-age-to-the-twenty-first-century/comment-page-1/#comment-1856Sun, 09 Dec 2018 13:56:28 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-1856[…] Book review – The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century https://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/book-review-the-great-leveler-violence-and-the… […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/04/17/book-review-the-great-leveler-violence-and-the-history-of-inequality-from-the-stone-age-to-the-twenty-first-century/comment-page-1/#comment-1104Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:20:29 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-1104[…] collapses: these are a matter of wealth inequality and redistribution. Scheidel’s The Great Leveler showed these transitions have never happened peacefully. Bardi adds an interesting aside about the […]

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