The Great Leveler
By
Walter Scheidel
Walter Scheidel
2017 • 504 pages

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53 books

Contemporary Capitalism

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The Great Leveler
The Great Escape
The Divide
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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37 books

R History

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Eleanor Anderson
Why Women Have Better Sex under Socialism And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
The Great Leveler
Enemy of All Mankind
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Hammer and hoe : Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

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49 books

Economics

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Economic Science Fictions
Who Owns the Future?
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

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91 books

Europe

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A Moveable Feast
The Judgment of Paris
Paris: The Secret History
Venice: A New History
Seven Ages Of Paris
History of Rome
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

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39 books

Economy and Politics

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Dom B
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
Against Elections
How the Right Lost Its Mind
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

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17,841 books

My Library

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Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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305 books

Wish List Non Fiction

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Zed
The Library at Night
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Cale
What's Welsh for Zen: The Autobiography of John Cale
Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale
The Story of George Loveless and the Tolpuddle Martyrs

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53 books

Politique économie

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Worth Dying For
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
J'accuse!
Requiem pour le rêve américain
« J’Accuse... ! » et autres grands articles
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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109 books

Capitalism

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Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Bait and Switch
Had I Known
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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114 books

Economics

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Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Years That Matter Most How College Makes or Breaks Us
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
A Participatory Economy

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21 books

Economic Inequality

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The Viral Underclass
Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
The Economics of Inequality

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156 books

Political History

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Spiritomb
Equality under the Constitution: Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment
Separating Church and State: A History
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
The Half Has Never Been Told
Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
The World the Plague Made
Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq

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31 books

R Theory

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Eleanor Anderson
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Theories of International Politics and Zombies
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Are Prisons Obsolete?
The Great Leveler
Discourse on Colonialism

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51 books

History World

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Historicizing Fear
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Salt: A World History
Empires of the Word
Libraries in the Ancient World
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World