Walter Scheidel
13 Podcast Episodes
Walter Scheidel
Walter Scheidel
Four horsemen of leveling | Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and Histo... Read more
18 Aug 2020
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24mins
122. Walter Scheidel — Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to Prosperity
122. Walter Scheidel — Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to Prosperity
What has the Roman Empire ever done for us? Fall and go away. That is the striking conclusion of historian Walter Scheid... Read more
30 Jun 2020
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1hr 13mins
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#110 - Violência e a história da desigualdade: uma análise do livro de Walter Scheidel
#110 - Violência e a história da desigualdade: uma análise do livro de Walter Scheidel
No episódio #110 da Rádio Companhia, Ricardo Teperman, publisher da Zahar, conversa com quatro analistas sobre o tema da... Read more
14 May 2020
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43mins
DAILY: Walter Scheidel: We Need to Worry About Inequality Now More Than Ever
DAILY: Walter Scheidel: We Need to Worry About Inequality Now More Than Ever
Walter Scheidel is the Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Classics and History, and a Kennedy-Grossman F... Read more
14 Apr 2020
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22mins
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (Walter Scheidel)
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (Walter Scheidel)
The history and inevitability of economic inequality, with thoughts on whether and in what circumstances it's bad, from ... Read more
11 Nov 2019
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26mins
Why Rome Never Rose Again: An Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel
Why Rome Never Rose Again: An Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel
Alone among the world's regions, western Europe only had one major, long-lived imperial experience: that of Rome. When i... Read more
19 Sep 2019
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42mins
24 A History of Inequality w/ Walter Scheidel
24 A History of Inequality w/ Walter Scheidel
We live at a time of increasing economic inequality worldwide. What is driving this trend? And what are the factors that... Read more
1 Jun 2019
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52mins
Why do we call it pitchfork economics? (with Ganesh Sitaraman and Walter Scheidel)
Why do we call it pitchfork economics? (with Ganesh Sitaraman and Walter Scheidel)
In 2014, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer warned his fellow plutocrats that our growing crisis of economic inequality wou... Read more
11 Dec 2018
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32mins
Walter Scheidel, “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Walter Scheidel, “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2017)
In 2017 half of the world’s wealth belongs to the top 1% of the population. In his new book, The Great Leveler Violence ... Read more
19 Oct 2017
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26mins
Walter Scheidel, “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Walter Scheidel, “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2017)
In 2017 half of the world’s wealth belongs to the top 1% of the population. In his new book, The Great Leveler Violence ... Read more
19 Oct 2017
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26mins
