Empirical data are presented on expenditure inequality dynamics in Greece, how they evolved during a period of deep socio-economic crisis, and how they were sustained by inflation. A differentiated approach to expenditure inequalities is applied that reveals the size of contraction of total...

With concepts like the consumer revolution or the industrious revolution, the changing behaviour of private households in the 18 th and early 19 th centuries has become of great interest. The article suggests a new way to observe intentions and decisions, by utilizing a database of 850,000...