The Conversation No One Wants to Have About Inequality

New ways of governing, policy, protests, and more have been introduced across the globe for centuries to try and curb inequality. So, what actually worked? According to Walter Scheidel, author of "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century," history reports that violence and catastrophe are the only proven effective interventions. On February 26th, Walter Scheidel, Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, Stanford, joined This Week in Dystopia host Chris Robichaud for a conversation at Harvard Kennedy School. More about "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century" can be found online here: Want more This Week in Dystopia? Don't forget to

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The Conversation No One Wants to Have About Inequality is an episode from This Week in Dystopia by Sarah Grucza.

This episode is 00:48:40 long.

This episode was published on Mar 6, 2018.

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