Inequality in the very long run: Malthus, Kuznets, and Ohlin

Peter Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson ()
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Jeffrey G. Williamson: Harvard University

Cliometrica, 2017, vol. 11, issue 3, No 1, 289-295

Abstract: Abstract What happened to the inequality of real income and wealth before, during, and after the Industrial Revolution? Just as the usual Industrial Revolution era (1750-1850) has been revised by historians of economic growth, so too the articles in this issue follow the lead of Van Zanden (1995) in opening up a new inequality history for earlier eras and other continents. Three of them offer new evidence on European wealth and income inequality movements in pre-industrial and industrial epochs. The fourth offers a new perspective on Latin American experience since the late nineteenth century, reporting a twentieth-century experience quite unlike the Great Leveling that Kuznets and others saw in Europe and the USA from World War 1 to the 1970s.

Keywords: Inequality; Income inequality; Wealth inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N10 N23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11698-016-0153-6

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