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.
Автор: Pilkington Edward Название: Beyond the mother country ISBN: 1350186589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350186583 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The British Government's relaxed approach to black immigration after 1948 is examined in detail up to the Nottiing Hill riots of 1958.
Автор: Fukuyama Название: Great disruption ISBN: 0684865777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780684865775 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 2803.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian.
Yet the practice and history of soccer are also synonymous with conflict and contradiction as Brazil continues its trajectory toward modernity and economic power. The ongoing debate over how Team Brazil should play and positively represent a nation of demanding supporters bears on many crucial facets of a country riven by racial and class tensions.
The Country of Football is filled with engaging stories of star players and other key figures, as well as extraordinary research on local, national, and international soccer communities. Soccer fans, scholars, and readers who are interested in the history of sport will emerge with a greater understanding of the complex relationship between Brazilian soccer and the nation's history.
Автор: Irena Kogan Название: Working Through Barriers ISBN: 9048173167 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048173167 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18866.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the role that institutional characteristics of host countries play in labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union.
Автор: Hutcheon, Nick Название: Intra-state immigrants as sub-state nationalists ISBN: 0367273551 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367273552 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the attitudes, opinions and life experiences of first and second generation intra-state immigrants who are committed Basque nationalists. Based on in-depth interviews with activists, it challenges many of the assumptions often made about Basque nationalism as an exemplary case of ethnic nationalism in the exclusive sense.
Название: Kyrgyz Republic: Improving Growth Potential ISBN: 9292617362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292617363 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4138.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Kyrgyz Republic has overcome some complex challenges to now have one of the most open economies in Central Asia. The country has improved its per capita income and living standards and is on the threshold of becoming a lower-middle-income economy. Looking ahead, the main challenge for the Kyrgyz Republic is to build on these successes to stimulate stronger, more broad-based economic growth. This book identifies the economic and governance reforms needed within key sectors to drive this growth. It provides policy suggestions to enhance the country’s trade, agriculture, tourism, finance, information and communications technology, energy, transport and logistics, and human capital.
Описание: Focuses on Belarus`s housing sector, specifically on issues of housing provision and affordability, management and maintenance of the housing stock, energy efficiency in housing, housing finance, smart sustainable cities, and the legal and institutional framework.
Название: Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities ISBN: 0367349280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367349288 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project, particularly focused on what the idea of `cultural sustainability` might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country towns.
Автор: Tampke, J?rgen Название: Wunderbar Country ISBN: 1032403934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032403939 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 14545.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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