The Political Economy of the Top 1% in an Age of Turbulence: Chile 1913-1973

Javier Rodríguez Weber

Documentos de trabajo from Programa de Historia Económica, FCS, Udelar

Abstract: Until recently, most studies on income inequality were very limited in their aim and scope: the period under study was restricted to the recent decades and income inequality was seen as a pure outcome of market forces. Nevertheless, things are changing. This paper is part of the growing literature which aims to study the political economy of income inequality in the long run. Using a new set of estimates on income inequality in Chile, the main task of this paper is to build a historical argumentation which focuses on the vicissitudes of the political economy of the income share of the top 1% between 1913 and 1973, an age of economic and political turbulence.

Keywords: Inequality; Top 1%; Chile; Political Economy; Institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 N36 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2015-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-pke and nep-pol
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/7281

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ude:doctra:41

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Documentos de trabajo from Programa de Historia Económica, FCS, Udelar
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Andrea Doneschi ().