WALTER SCHEIDEL ON HOW TO FIX INEQUALITY

Our 2020 How To Fix Democracy series is focused on the relationship not only between capitalism and democracy, but between democracy and inequality. Walter Scheidel is a distinguished historian at Stanford University, and an expert both in the historical and contemporary history of inequality. He’s the author of The Great Leveler, a book focused on the history of inequality. So there are few people better able to discuss the relationship between democracy and inequality than Scheidel.