Chapter Summary Assignment

In 2-3 doubled page, read "The Great Leveler" by Walter Scheidel and answer the following question in essay format.

You should aim to write half a page for each question and your answer aim to cover all the sub-questions.

1. In your own words, write down the main points of chapter 7-8

a. Write down key supports

b. How revolution of "communism" and "Before Lenin" drive economies;

c. What history teaches about shifts in income inequality

d. ask one question that you think we should discuss.

2. In your own words, write down the main points of chapter 9-10

a. Write down key supports

b. How state failure and system collapse drive economies?

c. What is the fourth horseman?

d. What history teaches about shifts in income inequality?

e. ask one question that you think we should discuss.

3. In your own words, write down the main points of chapter 11-13

a. Write down key supports

b. What is Black Death?

c. How Black Death drive economies?

d. What history teaches about shifts in income inequality?

e. What is land reform?

f. What was the role of "peaceful" macroeconomic cries?

g. How nonviolent land reform, economic downturns and democratization may work on occasion but have no systematic negative effect on inequality?

h. ask one question that you think we should discuss.

4. In your own words, write down the main points of chapter 14-16

a. Write down key supports

b. What is the alternative outcome discussed in chapter 14?

c. Describe what does our future hold.

d. ask one question that you think we should discuss.