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Decomposing income inequality in a backward pre-industrial economy: Old Castile (Spain) in the middle of the eighteenth century

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  • Esteban A. Nicolini & Fernando Ramos Palencia, 2016. "Decomposing income inequality in a backward pre-industrial economy: Old Castile (Spain) in the middle of the eighteenth century," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 69(3), pages 747-772, August.
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