Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as … inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD … applies two new concepts in making those assessments - what the authors call the inequality possibility frontier and the …

provides provisional answers. In 1904, on the eve of military defeat and the 1905 Revolution, Russian income inequality was … middling by the standards of that era, and less severe than inequality has become today in such countries as China, the United …