The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
Plagues, revolutions, massive wars, collapsed states—these are what reliably reduce economic disparities.
Walter Scheidel
Walter Scheidel is a professor of classics and history at Stanford University and the author of The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
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