TY  - CHAP
AU  - Bas Van Bavel
AB  - This 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.
DO  - 10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.27
ID  - OAPEN ID: 50905
KW  - pre-industrial age
KW  - European economic history
KW  - Economic inequality
KW  - economic history
L1  - https://www.fupress.com/redir.ashx?RetUrl=14225.pdf
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63409
PB  - Firenze University Press
PY  - 2020
TI  - 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?null
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