Fourie, Johan; Fintel, Dieter von - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 4 (2010) 3, pp. 229-267
levels of inequality during and after colonisation. Evidence from colonies in the Americas suggests that skewed initial … East India Company) settled on the land and established a unique set of institutions, within which inequality evolved. This … paper provides a long-run quantitative analysis of trends in asset-based inequality (using principal components analysis on …