About Walter Scheidel

Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman Fellow in Human Biology at Stanford University. His many books include The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton). He lives in Palo Alto, California. Twitter @WalterScheidel

Books by Walter Scheidel

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

Walter Scheidel

Princeton University Press
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

Walter Scheidel

Princeton University Press.
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Walter Scheidel

Princeton University Press
The Ancient Economy

The Ancient Economy

Walter Scheidel, Sitta Von Reden

Routledge

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