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dc.contributor.authorVan Bavel, Bas
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-01T12:11:49Z
dc.date.available2022-06-01T12:11:49Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20220601_9788855180535_219
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56036
dc.description.abstractThis paper scrutinizes the insights won by recent studies in wealth inequality in pre-industrial Europe. It focuses on the regions and periods where levels of inequality were relatively low, trying to arrive at an inventory of causes of these exceptions. It discusses catastrophic events, colonization and revolution as possible causes, but argues that these only occasionally had a leveling effect, depending on the social and institutional context in which they occurred. Most clearly wealth accumulation was restricted, even by maximums on ownership, where associative organizations held a solid position, and market and state played lesser roles as coordination systems.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDatini Studies in Economic History
dc.subject.otherEconomic inequality
dc.subject.othereconomic history
dc.subject.otherEuropean economic history
dc.subject.otherpre-industrial age
dc.titleChapter Looking for the islands of equality in a sea of inequality. Why did some societies in pre-industrial Europe have relatively low levels of wealth inequality?
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.27
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn9788855180535
oapen.series.number1
oapen.pages26
oapen.place.publicationFlorence


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