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Walter Scheidel

Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University; Author, "The Great Leveler"

Walter Scheidel is Dickason professor in the humanities, professor of classics and history, Catherine R. Kennedy and Daniel L. Grossman fellow in human biology and director of graduate studies in classics at Stanford University. His research focuses on ancient social and economic history, with particular emphasis on historical demography, labor and state formation. More generally, he is interested in comparative and transdisciplinary approaches to the study of the premodern world and has been trying to build bridges between the humanities, the social sciences and the life sciences. His latest book is "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton University Press, Jan. 24, 2017).

February 23, 2017

Inequality Has Historically Been Leveled Only By Terrible Violence And Upheaval

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