Decomposing Economic Inequality in Early Modern Venice (ca. 1650-1800)
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Keywords
consumption inequality; Early modern period; economic inequality; Little Divergence; Venice;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GRO-2018-10-15 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2018-10-15 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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