May 19, 2023 -
By JONATHAN POWER
Maybe, after all, there is an argument for saying that the world needs more violence not less if we are to make its societies more equal. T
In my last column, I wrote about The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, a book written by Walter Scheidel.
In his excellent new book In Defense of Capitalism (Republic Book Publishers, 2023), the historian and political scientist Rainer Zitelmann asks a vital question about inequality. In asking this question, he makes a move characteristic of his work.