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This article provides an overview of the research done in recent years by the ERC-funded projects EINITE-Economic Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300-1800, and SMITE-Social Mobility and Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300-1800. It begins by discussing the sources available for reconstructing...

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Έκδοση: Firenze University Press 2022
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-560302022-06-02T03:21:14Z Chapter Economic inequality in preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800: methods and results from the EINITE project ALFANI, GUIDO economic inequality economic history pre-industrial age wealth distribution european economic history This article provides an overview of the research done in recent years by the ERC-funded projects EINITE-Economic Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300-1800, and SMITE-Social Mobility and Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300-1800. It begins by discussing the sources available for reconstructing preindustrial economic inequality, especially in Italy, then it provides an overview of the methods which have been developed to produce reliable and homogenous information about inequality levels and trends. The method developed by EINITE to produce measures or distributions representative of broader aggregates (regions or entire states) is also discussed, as well as the techniques that can be employed to explore in a meaningful way such distributions to answer relevant historical questions. 2022-06-01T12:11:37Z 2022-06-01T12:11:37Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855180535_213 9788855180535 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56030 eng Datini Studies in Economic History application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 14208.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/9788855180535_7 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.07 10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.07 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855180535 1 16 Florence open access
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description This article provides an overview of the research done in recent years by the ERC-funded projects EINITE-Economic Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300-1800, and SMITE-Social Mobility and Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300-1800. It begins by discussing the sources available for reconstructing preindustrial economic inequality, especially in Italy, then it provides an overview of the methods which have been developed to produce reliable and homogenous information about inequality levels and trends. The method developed by EINITE to produce measures or distributions representative of broader aggregates (regions or entire states) is also discussed, as well as the techniques that can be employed to explore in a meaningful way such distributions to answer relevant historical questions.
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