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Some notes on pandemics and inequality

Some notes on pandemics and inequality

The history of society is the history of...disease?

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Carl Beijer
Apr 07, 2020
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Though it never achieved the fame of its successor, critics praised Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler upon its 2017 publication as a scholarly sequel to Thomas Piketty’s Capital In The Twenty-First Century. Whereas Capital sets out to relate inequality to decidedly economic factors, however — namely, growth and the rate of return on capital — Leveler …

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