Walter Scheidel

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Walter Scheidel is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, Stanford University, University of Vienna

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#10

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#48

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Walter Scheidel's Degrees

PhD History University of Vienna

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According to Wikipedia, Walter Scheidel is an Austrian historian who teaches ancient history at Stanford University, California. Scheidel's main research interests are ancient social and economic history, pre-modern historical demography, and comparative and transdisciplinary approaches to world history.

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Published Works

The Great Leveler (2018) (349)
The Cambridge economic history of the Greco-Roman world (2007) (348)
Debating Roman demography (2000) (273)
Human Mobility in Roman Italy, I: the Free Population* (2004) (156)
Emperors, aristocrats, and the grim reaper: towards a demographic profile of the Roman élite (1999) (154)
The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire* (2009) (145)
Population and Demography (2009) (138)
Quantifying the Sources of Slaves in the Early Roman Empire (1997) (134)
The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire (2009) (130)
A model of demographic and economic change in Roman Egypt after the Antonine plague (2002) (122)
Real Wages in Early Economies: Evidence for Living Standards from 1800 BCE to 1300 CE (2009) (118)
PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN ROMAN DEMOGRAPHY (2001) (101)
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (2017) (100)
Finances, figures and fiction (1996) (97)
The Greek demographic expansion: models and comparisons. (2003) (96)
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy (2012) (92)
Roman Age Structure: Evidence and Models* (2001) (92)
Death on the Nile: Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt (2001) (87)
The Roman Economy (2005) (85)
A peculiar institution? Greco–Roman monogamy in global context (2009) (84)
Real Slave Prices and the Relative Cost of Slave Labor in the Greco-Roman World (2005) (84)
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (2010) (78)
Human Mobility in Roman Italy, II: The Slave Population* (2005) (77)
The Comparative Economics of Slavery in the Greco-Roman World (2008) (77)
Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires (2009) (76)
The Ancient Economy (1993) (75)
Measuring Sex, Age and Death in the Roman Empire: Explorations in Ancient Demography (1996) (74)
Roman Population Size: The Logic of the Debate (2007) (71)
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium (2009) (71)
Roman Funerary Commemoration and the Age at First Marriage* (2007) (69)
A Model of Real Income Growth in Roman Italy (2007) (66)
The Early Roman Empire: The State and the Economy (2007) (64)
In search of Roman economic growth (2009) (62)
The shape of the Roman world: modelling imperial connectivity (2014) (61)
Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states (2018) (60)
BROTHER-SISTER MARRIAGE IN ROMAN EGYPT (1997) (59)
The Roman slave supply (2011) (56)
Disease and death (2013) (54)
Studying the State (2013) (53)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Mass diet and nutrition in the city of Rome (1998) (52)
Free-Born and Manumitted Bailiffs in the Graeco-Roman World (1990) (51)
Orbis: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World (2015) (49)
Libitina's Bitter Gains (1994) (49)
The Slave Population of Roman Italy. Speculation and Constraints (1999) (49)
A virtual water network of the Roman world (2014) (44)
Demographic and Economic Development in the Ancient Mediterranean World (2004) (43)
The Early Roman Empire: Production (2007) (42)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: The bean: substance and symbol (1998) (41)
The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica: Y-chromosome models of archaic Greek colonization of the western Mediterranean (2011) (41)
Monogamy and Polygyny (2011) (40)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Independent freedmen and the economy of Roman Italy under the Principate (1998) (37)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Child rearing in ancient Italy (1998) (36)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Non-slave labour in the Roman world (1998) (35)
Brother-sister and parent-child marriage outside royal families in ancient egypt and iran: A challenge to the sociobiological view of incest avoidance? (1996) (33)
Marriage, Families, and Survival: Demographic Aspects (2007) (33)
On Human Bondage: After Slavery and Social Death (2016) (33)
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics (2006) (31)
Physical well-being (2012) (30)
Roman Wellbeing and the Economic Consequences of the 'Antonine Plague' (2009) (29)
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (2019) (29)
Classical Greece: Production (2007) (29)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Peasants in ancient Roman society (1976) (27)
Sex and empire : a Darwinian perspective Version 2 . 0 May 2006 (2006) (26)
Household and Gender (2007) (25)
The ancient Near East and Egypt (2015) (23)
Coin hoards speak of population declines in Ancient Rome (2009) (23)
The Oxford handbook of the state in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean (2013) (22)
Economy and Society of Mediolanum under the Principate (1976) (22)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Mountain economies in southern Europe (1998) (22)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: The yield of the land in ancient Greece (1998) (22)
Libitina's Bitter Gains: Seasonal Mortality and Endemic Disease in the Ancient City of Rome. (1994) (22)
Hellenistic Greece and Western Asia Minor (2007) (21)
From the 'Great Convergence' to the 'First Great Divergence': Roman and Qin-Han State Formation and its Aftermath (2007) (21)
State power in ancient China and Rome (2015) (21)
Disease and Death in the Ancient City of Rome (2009) (20)
The Monetary Systems of the Han and Roman Empires (2008) (19)
Coin Quality, Coin Quantity, and Coin Value in Early China and the Roman World (2010) (18)
The divergent evolution of coinage in eastern and western Eurasia (2006) (18)
Studying fiscal regimes (2015) (18)
Economy and Quality of Life in the Roman World (2009) (18)
The Shape of the Roman World (2013) (18)
The Late Republic (2007) (17)
The Iron Age in the Western Mediterranean (2007) (15)
Approaching the Roman Economy (2010) (13)
Classical Greece: Distribution (2007) (13)
Monogamy and Polygyny in Greece, Rome, and World History (2008) (12)
Physical Wellbeing in the Roman World (2010) (12)
WHEN DID LIVY WRITE BOOKS 1, 3, 28 AND 59? (2009) (12)
The early Roman monarchy (2015) (12)
Explaining the Maritime Freight Charges in Diocletian's Price Edict (2013) (10)
The Western Provinces (2007) (10)
Epigraphy and Demography: Birth, Marriage, Family, and Death (2008) (10)
The Middle East in Islamic late antiquity (2015) (10)
Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics (2007) (10)
Explaining the maritime freight charges in Diocletian's Prices Edict (2013) (10)
Greco-Roman Sex Ratios and Femicide in Comparative Perspective (2010) (9)
Tributary empires and the New Fiscal Sociology: some comparative reflections (2015) (9)
The contribution of economics (2012) (8)
Slavery and Forced Labor in Early China and the Roman World (2013) (8)
The Aegean Bronze Age (2007) (8)
Evolutionary Psychology and the Historian (2014) (8)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Aspects of the decline of the urban aristocracy in the empire (1998) (7)
The Inka Empire (2015) (7)
Fiscal Regimes and the ‘First Great Divergence’ between Eastern and Western Eurasia (2011) (7)
The later Roman Empire (2015) (7)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Preface (1998) (7)
Italian manpower (2013) (7)
Human capital and economic growth (2012) (7)
Slavery in the Roman Economy (2010) (6)
Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity: The demographic background (2009) (6)
Death and the City: Ancient Rome and Beyond (2015) (6)
Escape from Rome: (2019) (6)
A forum on trade (2012) (6)
The archaeology of ancient slavery (2003) (6)
AI in Education (2022) (5)
The Ancient Economy and Graeco-Roman Egypt (2012) (5)
The Transition to Late Antiquity (2007) (5)
From monetization to culture change (2005) (5)
Continuity and Change in Classical Scholarship (1997) (5)
Raw materials and energy (2012) (5)
The Xiongnu and the Comparative Study of Empire (2010) (5)
Comparative History as Comparative Advantage: China's Potential Contribution to the Study of Ancient Mediterranean History (2008) (4)
Evolutionary Psychology and the HistorianEvolutionary Psychology and the Historian (2014) (4)
Poverty in the Roman World: Stratification, deprivation and quality of life (2006) (4)
New Ways of Studying Incomes in the Roman Economy (2009) (4)
The demography of Roman state formation in Italy Version 1 . 0 November 2005 (2005) (4)
Age and Health (2012) (4)
Roman Real Wages in Context (2010) (4)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Grain for Athens (1998) (4)
The 'First Great Divergence': Trajectories of Post-Ancient State Formation in Eastern and Western Eurasia (2007) (4)
The Oxford World History of Empire (2021) (3)
A Comparative Perspective on the Determinants of the Scale and Productivity of Maritime Trade in the Roman Mediterranean (2009) (3)
Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome. By Arthur M. Eckstein (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006) 372 pp. $49.95 (2008) (3)
The meaning of dates on mummy labels: seasonal mortality and mortuary practice in Roman Egypt (1998) (3)
Measuring Finley's Impact (2013) (3)
Empires of Inequality: Ancient China and Rome (2016) (3)
Military commitments and political bargaining in ancient Greece Version 1 . 0 November 2005 (2005) (3)
Slaves of the soil (2000) (3)
5 Ancient Egyptian Sibling Marriage and the Westermarck Effect (2004) (3)
The Greek polis and koinon (2015) (3)
Fiscal regimes and the political economy of early states (2010) (2)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Prolegomenon to a study of the land in the later Roman empire (1998) (2)
Slave Systems: The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world (2008) (2)
THE HIRELING AND THE SLAVE : A transatlantic perspective (2005) (2)
Continuity and Change in Classical Scholarship: a Quantitative Survey 1924-1992. (1997) (2)
Epigraphy and Demography (2012) (2)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Urban property investment in Roman society (1998) (2)
The Middle East under Rome. By Maurice Sartre. Translated by Catherine Porter and Elizabeth Rawlings with Jeannine Routier-Pucci. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 665. $39.95. (2007) (1)
Roman wealth and wealth inequality in comparative perspective (2019) (1)
The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Future of Economic Inequality (2020) (1)
Ancient Prices (2001) (1)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Acknowledgements (1998) (1)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: An association of builders in late antique Sardis (1998) (1)
Age and Health in Roman Egypt (2010) (1)
Fitness and Power: The Contribution of Genetics to the History of Differential Reproduction (2021) (1)
Citation Scores for Greco-Roman Historians in North America, 2019 (with 2021 update) (2021) (1)
Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome (review) (2008) (1)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Famine in history (1998) (1)
Building for the State: A World-Historical Perspective (2015) (1)
Demography and Sociology (2009) (1)
5. The Great Compression (2017) (1)
Citation Scores for Ancient Historians in the United States (2008) (1)
Post-Roman economies (2012) (1)
8. Before Lenin (2017) (0)
3. Up and Down (2017) (0)
ANCIENT HISTORY AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (2021) (0)
13. Economic Development and Education (2017) (0)
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics Evolutionary psychology and the historian (2013) (0)
Virtual water trade in the Roman Mediterranean (2015) (0)
MONTHS OF DEATH IN EPITAPHS FROM ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL EGYPT AND NUBIA (2001) (0)
BROTHER-SISTERMARRIAGEINROMAN EGYPT (1997) (0)
15. In Our Time (2017) (0)
1. The Rise of Inequality (2017) (0)
Epigraphy and demography: marriage, family, and death (2007) (0)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Bibliography (1998) (0)
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics Age and health in Roman Egypt (2010) (0)
Comparing comparisons : ancient East and West Version 1 . 0 April 2013 (2013) (0)
What Does the Future Hold (2018) (0)
All roads lead to Rome: the demography, economics and ethnicity of migration (2019) (0)
The first great divergence : China and Europe , 500-800 CE ” (0)
Throughout history, only violent and catastrophic events have significantly cut inequality (2017) (0)
All's fair in love and war (2017) (0)
Preindustrial Warfare and Civil War (2018) (0)
4. Total War (2017) (0)
State revenue and expenditure in the Han and Roman e pires Version 1 . 0 April 2012 (2012) (0)
Comparing Ancient Worlds: Comparative History as Comparative Advantage (2013) (0)
Human development and quality of life in the long run : the case of Greece Version 1 . 0 September 2010 (2010) (0)
ROME AND CHINA IN COMPARISON (2021) (0)
The Roman slave supply Version 1 . 0 May 2007 (2007) (0)
9. State Failure and Systems Collapse (2017) (0)
The Scale of Empire (2021) (0)
New blood: Rome’s emperors in global perspective (2017) (0)
The Black Death (2018) (0)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Editor's preface (1998) (0)
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power: Europe, Asia, and America ed. by Clifford Ando and Seth Richardson (review) (2020) (0)
Rome, Tenochtitlan, and Beyond: Comparing Empires Across Space and Time (2015) (0)
SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE (2000) (0)
Appendix: The Limits of Inequality (2018) (0)
Virtual water management in the Roman world (2014) (0)
Slavery in the Roman economy Version 1 . 0 September 2010 (2010) (0)
Non-Archimedean modernities (2022) (0)
MORTALITY PATTERNS AND CAUSES OF DEATH (2001) (0)
Benford's Law and Numerical Stylization of Monetary Valuations in Ancient Literature (2014) (0)
Building for the State (2018) (0)
Up and Down (2018) (0)
Comparing Comparisons: Ancient East and West (2013) (0)
Remembering the Roman People: Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature (review) (2010) (0)
16. What Does the Future Hold (2017) (0)
Empires of Inequality (2018) (0)
PART VI. ALTERNATIVES (2017) (0)
Explaining empire: models for ancient history (2006) (0)
11. Pandemics, Famine, and War (2017) (0)
Book review: Settlement, Urbanization, and Population, written by Bowman, A., Wilson, A. (2014) (0)
Monogamy, Bigamy, and Polygamy (0)
What is Ancient History? (2016) (0)
The Roman world at the time of Marcus Aurelius (2012) (0)
THE COLONATE (2000) (0)
BENFORD'S LAW AND NUMERICAL STYLIZATION OF MONETARY VALUATIONS IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE (2016) (0)
The shape of the Roman world Version 1 . 0 April 2013 (2013) (0)
JRS volume 91 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
12. Reform, Recession, and Representation (2017) (0)
Ancient Mediterranean City-State Empires (2021) (0)
P. TEMIN, THE ROMAN MARKET ECONOMY .Princeton:Princeton University Press,2013. Pp. xiv + 299. isbn 9780691147680. £24.95/US$35.00. (2014) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity: Where did Italian peasants live? (1998) (0)
POPULATION SIZE AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE (2001) (0)
PERSONS WITH EXACT AGES IN THE CENSUS RETURNS (2001) (0)
10. The Black Death (2017) (0)
Inequality and Instability in the Time of COVID-19 (2020) (0)
In defense of big history: a reply to Richard Hodges (2021) (0)
AGE STRUCTURE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY (2001) (0)
Introduction: The challenge of inequality (2017) (0)
14. What If ? From History to Counterfactuals (2017) (0)
Water management in the Roman world (2014) (0)
Economy and Quality of Life (2010) (0)

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