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5.2.2 Distributing Wealth in Modern History (ca. 1800–1900)

  • Jirí Janác (author)
  • Judit Klement(author)
Chapter of: The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000(pp. 605–614)
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Title5.2.2 Distributing Wealth in Modern History (ca. 1800–1900)
ContributorJirí Janác (author)
Judit Klement(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323.56
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0323/chapters/10.11647/obp.0323.56
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightJiří Janáč; Judit Klement
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-02-21
Page rangepp. 605–614
Print length9 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Jirí Janác

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Charles University

Judit Klement

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Eötvös Loránd University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4134-0805
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  2. Alfani, Guido, ‘Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond’, Journal of Economic Literature 59:1 (2021), 3–44, https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20191449.
  3. Atkinson, Antony and François Bourguignon, eds, Handbook of Income Distribution (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2000–2015).
  4. Brenner, Yehojachin Simon, Hartmut Kaelble and Mark Thomas, eds, Income Distribution in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
  5. Clark, Gregory, ‘Farm wages and living standards in the industrial revolution: England, 1670–1869’, The Economic History Review 54:3 (2001), 477–505.
  6. Cvrček, Tomáš, ‘Population and Living Standards, 1800–1914’, in The Economic History of Central, East and South-East Europe 1800 to the Present, ed. by Matthias Morys (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 128–157.
  7. Feinstein, Charles H., ‘Pessimism Perpetuated: Real Wages and the Standard of Living in Britain during and after the Industrial Revolution’, Journal of Economic History 58:3 (1998), 625–658.
  8. Leonard, Carol and Jonas Ljungberg, ‘Population and living standards, 1870–1914’, in The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe, vol. II, ed. by Stephen Broadberry and Kevin H. O’Rourke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 108–130, http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794841.007.
  9. Milanovic, Branko, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016).
  10. Pamuk, Şevket and Jan-Luiten van Zanden, ‘Standards of living’, in The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe, vol. I, ed. by Stephen Broadberry and Kevin H. O’Rourke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 217–234, http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794834.011.
  11. Scheidel, Walter, The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).

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