Chapter Looking for the islands of equality in a sea of inequality. Why did some societies in pre-industrial Europe have relatively low levels of wealth inequality?

This paper scrutinizes the insights won by recent studies in wealth inequality in pre-industrial Europe. It focuses on the regions and periods where levels of inequality were relatively low, trying to arrive at an inventory of causes of these exceptions. It discusses catastrophic events, colonizatio...

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Huvudskapare: Van Bavel, Bas (auth)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Florence Firenze University Press 2020
Serie:Datini Studies in Economic History
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