Measuring ancient inequality (English)

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD, to Byzantium in 1000, to England in 1688, to Nueva España around 1790, to China in...

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Lindert,Peter H.;

Milanovic,Branko L.;

Williamson,Jeffrey G.;
Document Date
2007/11/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS4412
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2010/07/01
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Disclosed
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Measuring ancient inequality
Keywords
subsistence minimum

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Lindert,Peter H.; Milanovic,Branko L.; Williamson,Jeffrey G..

Measuring ancient inequality (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4412 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/803681468135958164

Measuring ancient inequality (English)

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