Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing - and recovering -their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" - claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This book proves that premise wrong.

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.

「新しい哲学の旗手」「天才哲学者」と称され、世界中から注目を集めているマルクス・ガブリエル。200年以上の歴史を誇るドイツ・ボン大学の哲学科・正教授に史上最年少で抜擢された、気鋭の哲学者だ。

〈政治〉とは何なのか。〈政治〉を知る必要はどうしてあるのか。それによってなにがわかってくるのか。なぜ知るべきなのか――。根本からわかりやすく解説。

「COVID-19の蔓延により、おそらく人類史上初めて、世界中で人間の行動の完全な同期がみられた」と哲学者マルクス・ガブリエルはいう。