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Global inequality and global inequality extraction ratio: The story of the last two centuries

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Milanovic, Branko

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Using social tables, we make an estimate of global inequality (inequality among world citizens) in early 19th century. We then show that the level and composition of global inequality have changed over the last two centuries. The level has increased reaching a high plateau around 1950s, and the main determinants of global inequality have become differences in mean country incomes rather than inequalities within nations. The inequality extraction ratio (the percentage of total inequality that was extracted by global elites) has remained surprisingly stable, at around 70 percent of the maximum global Gini, during the last 100 years.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 16535.

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Keywords: global inequality; economic history; inequality extraction ratio;

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D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income, and Wealth

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  1. Branko Milanovic, 2006. "An Estimate Of Average Income And Inequality In Byzantium Around Year 1000," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 52(3), pages 449-470, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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