Guido Alfani, Matteo Di Tullio

The Lion's Share

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the most in-depth analysis of economic inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781108476218
• ISBN-10: 110847621X
• Artikelnr.: 54436868

Autorenporträt

Guido Alfani is Professor of Economic History at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan. His recent works include Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy: The Grand Tour of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2013) and, with Cormac Ó Gráda, Famine in European History (Cambridge, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Venetian fiscal system: centre and periphery
2. The rich and the poor
3. Economic inequality in the long run
4. Taxation, redistribution and inequality
Appendix: building regional distributions of wealth for the Republic of Venice and for Veneto
Archival sources
Printed sources
Bibliography
Index.