Walter Scheidel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, and has long been at the forefront of applying social science methods to many of the big questions of ancient and modern history. We talked about the plagues of Egypt; economic inequality over the very long term; monogamy, polygamy, and the West; the fall of Rome and what difference it made; and whether we should be in favour of catastrophic civilizational collapse.

*Death on the Nile*: https://brill.com/display/title/7348

*The Great Leveler*: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0691165025

*Escape from Rome*: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0691172188

'A Peculiar Institution? Greco-Roman Monogamy in Global Context': https://www.academia.edu/3166619/A_peculiar_institution_Greco_Roman_monogamy_in_global_context

Piketty, *Capital in the 21st Century*: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0674979850

Deayton, ' COVID-19 and Global Income Inequality ': https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34308354/

Morris, *Why the West Rules - For Now*: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0312611692

Henrich, *The Weirdest People in the World*: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0374173222

Holland, *Dominion*: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1408706954

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