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Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond

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  1. Guido Alfani, 2025. "Inequality in history: A long‐run view," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(2), pages 546-566, April.
  2. Giovanni Federico & Alessandro Nuvolari & Michelangelo Vasta, 2023. "Inequality in Pre‐Industrial Europe (1260–1850): New Evidence From the Labor Share," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 69(2), pages 347-375, June.
  3. Noblit, Graham Alexander & Hadfield, Gillian, 2023. "Normative Conflict and Normative Change," SocArXiv tvg7b, Center for Open Science.
  4. Hector Garcia-Montero, 2022. "Height, Nutritional and Economic Inequality in Central Spain, 1837–1936," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(6), pages 1-18, March.
  5. Philipp Erfurth & Maria Gomez Leon & Giacomo Gabbuti & Branko Milanovic, 2026. "Historical social tables: advantages, methodology, and problems," Documentos de Trabajo EH-Valencia (DT-EHV) 2602, Economic History group at the Universitat de Valencia.
  6. Joyce Burnette, 2025. "How not to measure the standard of living: Male wages, non‐market production and household income in nineteenth‐century Europe," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 78(1), pages 87-112, February.
  7. Blomqvist, Christopher & Enflo, Kerstin & Jakobsson, Andreas & Åström, Kalle, 2023. "Reading the ransom: Methodological advancements in extracting the Swedish Wealth Tax of 1571," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
  8. Leandro Prados de la Escosura & Carlos Álvarez-Nogal & Carlos Santiago-Caballero, 2022. "Growth recurring in preindustrial Spain?," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 16(2), pages 215-241, May.
  9. Caruso Raul & Antonella Biscione, 2022. "Militarization and Income Inequality in European Countries (2000–2017)," Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 28(3), pages 267-285, September.
  10. Daniel R. Curtis & Bram van Besouw, 2025. "Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth‐century rural community," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 78(4), pages 1088-1117, November.
  11. Alfani, Guido & Sardone, Sergio, 2025. "Long-term trends in income and wealth inequality in southern Italy. The Kingdom of Naples (Apulia), sixteenth to eighteenth centuries," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
  12. Felix Schaff, 2022. "Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities," Working Papers 0225, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
  13. Guido Alfani & Matteo Di Tullio & Mattia Fochesato, 2026. "Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 79(2), pages 811-849, May.
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  15. Felix S. F. Schaff, 2025. "The unequal spirit of the Protestant Reformation: particularism and wealth distribution in early modern Germany," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 30(3), pages 417-460, September.
  16. María Inés Moraes & Rebeca Riella & Carolina Vicario & Pablo Marmisolle, 2021. "Wealth inequality in colonial Hispanic-America: Montevideo in the late 18th century," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 21-18, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
  17. Julio Martinez-Galarraga & Marc Prat, 2022. "Pre-industrial inequality in Catalonia," UB School of Economics Working Papers 2022/430, University of Barcelona School of Economics.
  18. Johannes Marzian & Julian Laabs & Johannes Müller & Tilman Requate, 2024. "Inequality in relational wealth within the upper societal segment: evidence from prehistoric Central Europe," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-12, December.
  19. Milanovic, Branko, 2024. "How rich were the rich? An empirically-based taxonomy of pre-industrial bases of wealth," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
  20. Galli, Stefania & Theodoridis, Dimitrios & Rönnbäck, Klas, 2024. "Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–1914," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
  21. Erfurth, Philipp, 2024. "Estimating Income Inequality in Rural Roman Egypt," SocArXiv wrx9b, Center for Open Science.
  22. Lambert, Thomas, 2021. "Byzantine Economic Growth: Did Climate Change Play a Role?," MPRA Paper 107898, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  23. Johan Fourie, 2026. "Inequality in the Cape Colony, 1685–1844: New Measures, New Evidence," Working Papers 04/2026, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
  24. Guido Alfani & Michele Bolla & Walter Scheidel, 2025. "A comparison of income inequality in the Roman and Chinese Han empires," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-12, December.
  25. Felix S.F. Schaff, 2023. "The Unequal Spirit of the Protestant Reformation: Particularism and Wealth Distribution in Early Modern Germany," Working Papers 0239, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
  26. Anthony Edo & Jacques Melitz, 2023. "Wealth and shifting demand pressures on the price level in England after the Black Death," Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC), vol. 17(1), pages 91-124, January.
  27. Matthew O. Jackson, 2025. "Inequality's Economic and Social Roots: the Role of Social Networks and Homophily," Papers 2506.13016, arXiv.org.
  28. Alfani, Guido, 2026. "Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Societies: What We Know, What We Don't (But Should) Know," SocArXiv ezm7d_v1, Center for Open Science.
  29. Klas Rönnbäck & Stefania Galli & Dimitrios Theodoridis & Kathrine Faust Larsen, 2026. "Almost perfect inequality: long-run evidence on wealth distribution from the Danish West Indies 1760–1914," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 20(1), pages 153-184, January.
  30. Martin Andersson & Jakob Molinder, 2024. "Swedish income inequality in 1613," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 77(4), pages 1336-1361, November.
  31. Andres Irarrazaval, 2023. "The Pillars of Shared Prosperity: Insights From Elite versus State Extraction And From a New Instrument," Working Papers wp549, University of Chile, Department of Economics.
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  33. Elena Korchmina & Mikołaj Malinowski, 2024. "How extractive was Russian Serfdom? Income inequality in Moscow Province in the early 19th century," Working Papers 0266, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
  34. Tim Riswick & Sanne Muurling & Katalin Buzasi, 2022. "Exploring the mortality advantage of Jewish neighbourhoods in mid-19th century Amsterdam," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 46(25), pages 723-736.
  35. Guido Alfani, 2022. "Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 60(1), pages 3-40, March.
  36. Alfani, Guido & Gierok, Victoria & Schaff, Felix, 2025. "Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
  37. Bas Bavel & Marten Scheffer, 2021. "Historical effects of shocks on inequality: the great leveler revisited," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 8(1), pages 1-9, December.
  38. Bas van Bavel, 2022. "Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial Europe: What role did associational organizations have?," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(3), pages 643-666, August.
  39. Qiang Wu & Guangyu Tong & Peng Zhou, 2025. "Long-term wage inequality in imperial China: From 202 BCE to 1912 CE," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 20(1), pages 1-22, January.
  40. Dianna Amasino & Davide Domenico Pace & Joel van der Weele, 2023. "Self-serving Bias in Redistribution Choices: Accounting for Beliefs and Norms," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 380, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
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  42. Marcin Wroński, 2023. "Income distribution in Warsaw in the 1830s," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 27(4), pages 581-605.
  43. Andersson, Martin & Molinder, Jakob, 2022. "Persistently egalitarian? Swedish income inequality in 1613 and the four-estate parliament," Lund Papers in Economic History 235, Lund University, Department of Economic History.
  44. Charlotte Bartels & Felix Kersting & Nikolaus Wolf, 2023. "Testing Marx," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 374, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
  45. Beniamino Callegari & Christophe Feder, 2022. "A Literature Review of Pandemics and Development: the Long-Term Perspective," Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Springer, vol. 6(1), pages 183-212, March.
  46. Schaff, Felix S.F., 2023. "Warfare and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800)," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
  47. Michiel de Haas, 2022. "Reconstructing income inequality in a colonial cash crop economy: five social tables for Uganda, 1925–1965 [Long-term trends in income inequality: winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960]," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 26(2), pages 255-283.
  48. Milan Zafirovski, 2024. "Distributive justice revisited in a comparative setting: the fairness of wages in OECD countries and modalities of society," SN Business & Economics, Springer, vol. 4(1), pages 1-44, January.
  49. Joel H Suss, 2023. "Measuring local, salient economic inequality in the UK," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 55(7), pages 1714-1737, October.
  50. Spike Gibbs, 2026. "Limits to the power of economic elites?: Wealth, authority, and inequality in eastern English villages, c. 1350–c. 1550," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 79(1), pages 247-280, February.
  51. Giovanni Federico, 2021. "Introduction to the symposium on inequality," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(3), pages 581-583, August.
  52. Suss, Joel, 2023. "Measuring local, salient economic inequality in the UK," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117884, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  53. Galli, Stefania & Dimitrios, Theodoridis, & Rönnbäck, Klas, 2024. "Thriving in a declining economy - Elite persistence in the West Indies, 1760-1914," Göteborg Papers in Economic History 37, University of Gothenburg, Unit for Economic History.
  54. Bas Spliet & Anne E. C. McCants, 2026. "The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 79(2), pages 684-716, May.
  55. Adelaide Baronchelli & Roberto Ricciuti & Mattia Viale, 2025. "Elite persistence in medieval Venice after the Black Death," Rivista di storia economica, Società editrice il Mulino, issue 3, pages 307-329.
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  57. Elena Bárcena, 2024. "Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 22(2), pages 519-529, June.
  58. Guido Alfani & Hector García Montero, 2022. "Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial England: A long‐term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(4), pages 1314-1348, November.
  59. Gómez-León, María & Gabbuti, Giacomo, 2025. "Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1901-1950," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
  60. Brea-Martinez, Gabriel & Pujadas-Mora, Joana-Maria, 2022. "Inequality in social mobility in Southern Europe. Evidence of Class Ceiling in the area of Barcelona, 16th-19th centuries," OSF Preprints 74qr9, Center for Open Science.
  61. Beniamino Callegari & Christophe Feder, 2022. "The long-term economic effects of pandemics: toward an evolutionary approach [Epidemics and trust: the case of the Spanish flu]," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 31(3), pages 715-735.
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  64. Luetticke, Ralph & Meyer, Timothy & Müller, Gernot & Schularick, Moritz, 2025. "The Great Leveler According to HANK," CEPR Discussion Papers 20943, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
  65. Bengtsson, Erik & Molinder, Jakob, 2024. "Incomes and income inequality in Stockholm, 1870–1970: Evidence from micro data," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
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  67. Rodríguez Weber, Javier, 2025. "Inequality, instability, and the dynamics of Kuznets waves in core capitalist societies," MPRA Paper 127306, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  68. Julio Martinez-Galarraga & Marc Prat, 2025. "Inequality in rural Catalonia in the early eighteenth century," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 19(1), pages 195-247, January.
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