Are 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 stabi...
Are 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 "Four Horsemen" of leveling―mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues―have 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 persistent―and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.
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得到听书: 贫富分化和阶层固化到底是历史的必然还是偶然？经历了两次世界大战和战后的重建，全球财富不平等曾经偶然极大缓解。相反，1980年后全球重新必然回到贫富差距拉大的路上。根据他的分析，历史上只有大规模战争、国家崩溃和大规模瘟疫才会带来大规模平均财富的效果。最近几次经济危机和金融危机，都是富人更容易恢复元气，穷人却要花很长时间才能缓过气来。我们正处在从工业时代向后工业数字服务经济时代的大转型期，... 得到听书: 贫富分化和阶层固化到底是历史的必然还是偶然？经历了两次世界大战和战后的重建，全球财富不平等曾经偶然极大缓解。相反，1980年后全球重新必然回到贫富差距拉大的路上。根据他的分析，历史上只有大规模战争、国家崩溃和大规模瘟疫才会带来大规模平均财富的效果。最近几次经济危机和金融危机，都是富人更容易恢复元气，穷人却要花很长时间才能缓过气来。我们正处在从工业时代向后工业数字服务经济时代的大转型期，如果历史有规律的话，我们将面临一个贫富差距持续拉大的时期 作者还希望能找到推动政府真正实施进步政策的方法。他断言经济的高速发展必然带来贫富差距的拉大。面对未来，从工业社会向后工业数字服务经济时代的转型，会带来更多的变化，沙伊德尔如全民收入保障、鼓励创业贷款和包容破产的政策、分享专利的想法值得仔细思考 (展开)
0 有用 Jimmy47 2021-03-27 22:21:16
得到听书: 贫富分化和阶层固化到底是历史的必然还是偶然？经历了两次世界大战和战后的重建，全球财富不平等曾经偶然极大缓解。相反，1980年后全球重新必然回到贫富差距拉大的路上。根据他的分析，历史上只有大规模战争、国家崩溃和大规模瘟疫才会带来大规模平均财富的效果。最近几次经济危机和金融危机，都是富人更容易恢复元气，穷人却要花很长时间才能缓过气来。我们正处在从工业时代向后工业数字服务经济时代的大转型期，... 得到听书: 贫富分化和阶层固化到底是历史的必然还是偶然？经历了两次世界大战和战后的重建，全球财富不平等曾经偶然极大缓解。相反，1980年后全球重新必然回到贫富差距拉大的路上。根据他的分析，历史上只有大规模战争、国家崩溃和大规模瘟疫才会带来大规模平均财富的效果。最近几次经济危机和金融危机，都是富人更容易恢复元气，穷人却要花很长时间才能缓过气来。我们正处在从工业时代向后工业数字服务经济时代的大转型期，如果历史有规律的话，我们将面临一个贫富差距持续拉大的时期 作者还希望能找到推动政府真正实施进步政策的方法。他断言经济的高速发展必然带来贫富差距的拉大。面对未来，从工业社会向后工业数字服务经济时代的转型，会带来更多的变化，沙伊德尔如全民收入保障、鼓励创业贷款和包容破产的政策、分享专利的想法值得仔细思考 (展开)