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The persistence of wealth Economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Ekonomisk historia,Department of Economy and Society,Department of Economy and Society, Economic History
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- Galli, Stefania, 1989 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Ekonomisk historia,Department of Economy and Society, Economic History
- Theodoridis, Dimitrios, 1987 (author)
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- Faust Larsen, Kathrine (author)
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- Göteborg, 2024
- English.
- Series: Göteborg papers in Economic History (online), 1653-1000
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- It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture. We contribute with a study on the wealth distribution in a Caribbean society, based on individual-level data for the full population, combining tax and census records into the largest comparable historical dataset from the Global South. Our results show a distribution of wealth shockingly close to perfect inequality. Our results also show a remarkable degree of persistence: even after slavery was abolished, the freedmen never managed to accumulate physical wealth to any measurable degree.
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- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)
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- Inequality wealth slavery Caribbean Emancipation Long-term
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