Lion''s Share - Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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).Matteo Di Tullio is a research fellow in early modern history at Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy and a member of the Dondena Centre at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi. He is the author of The Wealth of Communities: War, Resources and Cooperation in Renaissance Lombardy (2014).

Zusammenfassung

This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. It connects the rise of the fiscal-military state to increases in economic inequality in the early modern period, while also adding to contemporary debates about the disparity of wealth.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Guido Alfani, Guido (Universita Commerciale Luigi Boccon Alfani, Guido (Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Alfani, Alfani Guido, Matteo Di Tullio, Matteo (Universita degli Studi di Pavia Di Tullio, Di Tullio Matteo
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108476218
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47621-8
• Seiten: 244
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history