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oapen-20.500.12657-560362022-06-02T03:21:22Z Chapter Looking for the islands of equality in a sea of inequality. Why did some societies in pre-industrial Europe have relatively low levels of wealth inequality? Van Bavel, Bas Economic inequality economic history European economic history pre-industrial age This paper scrutinizes the insights won by recent studies in wealth inequality in pre-industrial Europe. It focuses on the regions and periods where levels of inequality were relatively low, trying to arrive at an inventory of causes of these exceptions. It discusses catastrophic events, colonization and revolution as possible causes, but argues that these only occasionally had a leveling effect, depending on the social and institutional context in which they occurred. Most clearly wealth accumulation was restricted, even by maximums on ownership, where associative organizations held a solid position, and market and state played lesser roles as coordination systems. 2022-06-01T12:11:49Z 2022-06-01T12:11:49Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855180535_219 9788855180535 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56036 eng Datini Studies in Economic History application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 14225.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/9788855180535_27 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.27 10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.27 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788855180535 1 26 Florence open access
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This paper scrutinizes the insights won by recent studies in wealth inequality in pre-industrial Europe. It focuses on the regions and periods where levels of inequality were relatively low, trying to arrive at an inventory of causes of these exceptions. It discusses catastrophic events, colonization and revolution as possible causes, but argues that these only occasionally had a leveling effect, depending on the social and institutional context in which they occurred. Most clearly wealth accumulation was restricted, even by maximums on ownership, where associative organizations held a solid position, and market and state played lesser roles as coordination systems.
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