
The Great Leveler
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Challenge of Inequality
- PART I. A BRIEF HISTORY OF INEQUALITY
- 1. The Rise of Inequality
- 2. Empires of Inequality
- 3. Up and Down
- PART II. WAR
- 4. Total War
- 5. The Great Compression
- 6. Preindustrial Warfare and Civil War
- PART III. REVOLUTION
- 7. Communism
- 8. Before Lenin
- PART IV. COLLAPSE
- 9. State Failure and Systems Collapse
- PART V. PLAGUE
- 10. The Black Death
- 11. Pandemics, Famine, and War
- PART VI. ALTERNATIVES
- 12. Reform, Recession, and Representation
- 13. Economic Development and Education
- 14. What If ? From History to Counterfactuals
- PART VII. INEQUALITY REDUX AND THE FUTURE OF LEVELING
- 15. In Our Time
- 16. What Does the Future Hold?
- Appendix: The Limits of Inequality
- Bibliography
- Index
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