The Great Leveler
First published 2017 · 528 pages
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The Great Leveler invites comparison with two other books: Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty, and Rising Up and Rising Down by William Vollmann. All three books make the point that violent shocks to the established order can result in large scale redistribution of wealth that would otherwise become ever more concentrated. However, all three also note that this effect is not consistent…
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