Publication: Pre-industrial Inequality
| dc.contributor.author | Milanovic, Branko | |
| dc.contributor.author | Williamson, Jeffrey G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-30T07:29:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-03-30T07:29:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes as unequal as they are today? This article infers inequality across individuals within each of the 28 pre-industrial societies, for which data were available, using what are known as social tables. It applies two new concepts: the inequality possibility frontier and the inequality extraction ratio. They compare the observed income inequality to the maximum feasible inequality that, at a given level of income, might have been 'extracted' by those in power. The results give new insights into the connection between inequality and economic development in the very long run. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Economic Journal | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 00130133 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4776 | |
| dc.language.iso | EN | |
| dc.relation.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo | |
| dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
| dc.subject | Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 | |
| dc.subject | Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement D630 | |
| dc.subject | Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative N300 | |
| dc.title | Pre-industrial Inequality | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Economic Journal | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |
| dc.type | Article de journal | fr |
| dc.type | ArtÃculo de revista | es |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| okr.doctype | Journal Article | |
| okr.externalcontent | External Content | |
| okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 1261 | |
| okr.journal.nbpages | 255-272 | |
| okr.language.supported | en | |
| okr.peerreview | Academic Peer Review | |
| okr.relation.associatedurl | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eoh&AN=1161363&site=ehost-live | |
| okr.relation.associatedurl | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0013-0133 | |
| okr.volume | 121 | |
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