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Economic Inequality in Early Modern Venice: Evidence from a New Archival Source

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  • Mattia Viale
  • Edoardo Demo
  • Roberto Ricciuti

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This article aims to show the possibilities provided by household budgets for the study of economic inequalities of the elites in pre-industrial times, using the city of Venice between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a case study. Based on largely unpublished archival sources, income and consumption inequalities were studied in combination to give a glimpse of trends in economic disparities between the wealthier classes of the Republic. At the general level, we find an increase in the level of inequality throughout the early modern period, both in terms of income and expenditure. Deepening the analysis, we argue how this process is driven by intra-group forces and in particular by a divergence among the nobility

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  • Mattia Viale & Edoardo Demo & Roberto Ricciuti, 2021. "Economic Inequality in Early Modern Venice: Evidence from a New Archival Source," Rivista di storia economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 2, pages 95-113.
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    1. Mattia Viale, 2024. "Stocks and flows: Material culture and consumption behaviour in early modern Venice (c. 1650–1800)," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 77(2), pages 416-443, May.

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