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The persistence of wealth Economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run
(2024-02)
It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture. We contribute with a study on the wealth distribution in a ...
Thriving in a declining economy - Elite persistence in the West Indies, 1760-1914
(2024-03)
The issue of how elites as a social group come to be, how they maintain their
position and how they affect the society they come to control is very much at the centre
of the inequality debate. The present paper studies ...