Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Strulik, Holger - 2020
agriculture, and provide evidence for technology-driven inequality in Britain between 1525 and 1895. We confirm these results for … a panel of European countries over the period 1265-1850 using agricultural productivity as a measure of technology …. Finally, using patents in the period 1800-1980, we find a technology-driven inequality reversal around the onset of the …