The great historical panoramas multiply.
They are always larger, more synthetic and more global.
The Austrian historian Walter Scheidel follows in the footsteps of these academics who look at the planet from Sirius and are both historians and philosophers of history.
Let us quote the most famous: Jared Diamond, Steven Pinker, Yuval Noah Harari, Hans Rosling or Thomas Piketty.
Scheidel began by writing and teaching the history of the Roman Empire, then he left his native Austria to join the Pacific Rim and Stanford University at the age of 28.
Having stood out in his specialty, the attractions of monumental frescoes in connected history have been stronger than anything.
And when Thomas Piketty's books on capital and inequalities in modern societies were published in the United States, he said to himself that it was necessary to shed a historian's light.
To read also:
Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux and Thomas Piketty: "Thinking about capitalism in the 21st century"
The result is far, very far, from the postulates of Thomas Piketty in favor of a renewal
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