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Testing Marx : income inequality, concentration, and socialism in late 19th century Germany
Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2021
We study the dynamics of income inequality, capital concentration, and voting outcomes before 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian counties and districts we re-evaluate the key economic debate between Marxists and their critics before 1914. We show that the increase in inequality was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820215
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Poverty in early modern Europe : new approaches to old problems
Alfani, Guido; Ammannati, Francesco; Ryckbosch, Wouter - 2022
Earlier research on poverty failed to provide us with consistent measures of its prevalence across space and time. This … is due to the limitations of the available sources and to the difficulty of applying to them the poverty definitions of … modern social science. This article discusses different possible approaches to poverty measurement and the problems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821150
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The unequal spirit of the protestant reformation : particularism and wealth distribution in early modern Germany
Schaff, Felix S. F. - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally divided Germany, between 1400 and 1800. The Reformation expanded social welfare, but provided it in a particularistic way to insiders only. This gave Protestantism an ambiguous...
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