Inequality and biological welfare during the mining boom: Rio Tinto, 1836-1935
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Keywords
Biological welfare; mining; Río Tinto; inequality;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GRO-2014-02-02 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2014-02-02 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
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