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5. Milanović, B. (2012) <i>The haves and the have-nots: a brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality. </i> New York, Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group. This is a book by a economist who looks at how social inequality has changed. While social class often has defined inequality, more recently those who are born in the right countries (e.g., such as Western states) have a far higher likely potential for greater wealth. Inequality has, for the past thirty years, been increasing between countries.
6. Scheidel, W. (2016) <i>The great leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the stone age to the twenty-first century</i>. The princeton economic history of the western world. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. A large part of inequality is how violence both shapes it and is a result of it. Violence in the ancient and modern worlds has shaped how societies enabled some groups to be in greater power, while it has also resulted from an over concentration of power in given groups or individuals.
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