The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe

ISBN-13: 9781108476218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 244 str.

Guido Alfani; Matteo Di Tullio

Opis

This is the most in-depth analysis of economic inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society.

Recenzje

'Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative research from archival documents, this book presents new data and new conclusions on an important and timely topic - the steady growth of inequality in societies across early modern Europe from the Black Death to the end of the eighteenth century.' Samuel Cohn, Jr, author of Epidemics: Hate and Compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Venetian fiscal system: centre and periphery; 2. The rich and the poor; 3. Economic inequality in the long run; 4. Taxation, redistribution and inequality; Appendix: building regional distributions of wealth for the Republic of Venice and for Veneto; Archival sources; Printed sources; Bibliography; Index.