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CATEGORIES:Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
SUMMARY:Income Inequality around the Year Zero: Quantitati
 ve Insights from Chinese Literary Sources - Michel
 e Bolla (Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:Today long-run inequality trends are a well-establ
 ished\, central research topic of academic researc
 h. A truly long-run perspective\, however\, was on
 ly recently achieved\, when late medieval and earl
 y modern times were added to the picture through i
 ntense archival research. Estimates for earlier pe
 riods are inherently "shakier"\, with wider margin
 s of error resulting from the reliance on archaeol
 ogical proxies and mixed literary sources.\n\nI co
 nstruct estimates of income inequality for Han-dyn
 asty China at its demographic peak (ca. 2 CE)\, wh
 ich official sources described as severely unequal
 . In fact\, those sources\, when combined with com
 parative evidence\, allow to infer that inequality
  extraction was unexceptional in late Former Han t
 imes - at least\, by pre-industrial standards. The
  quantitative methods employed here are similar to
  those underlying the most recent estimates for th
 e early Roman Empire. However\, I take steps to ac
 count for regional variation within the Han Empire
 \, which is absent in widely accepted figures for 
 Rome and\, I argue\, is essential for long-run\, c
 omparative debates on inequality in human polities
 .
LOCATION:Room 9\, Faculty of History
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