The persistence of wealth Economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run

dc.contributor.author	Rönnbäck, Klas
dc.contributor.author	Galli, Stefania
dc.contributor.author	Theodoridis, Dimitrios
dc.contributor.author	Faust Larsen, Kathrine
dc.date.accessioned	2024-03-04T12:22:38Z
dc.date.available	2024-03-04T12:22:38Z
dc.date.issued	2024-02
dc.identifier.issn	1653-1000 online version
dc.identifier.issn	1653-1019 print version
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2077/80217
dc.description.abstract	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 Caribbean society, based on individual-level data for the full population, combining tax and census records into the largest comparable historical dataset from the Global South. Our results show a distribution of wealth shockingly close to perfect inequality. Our results also show a remarkable degree of persistence: even after slavery was abolished, the freedmen never managed to accumulate physical wealth to any measurable degree.	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Göteborg Papers in Economic History 35	sv
dc.subject	Inequality	sv
dc.subject	wealth	sv
dc.subject	slavery	sv
dc.subject	Caribbean	sv
dc.subject	mancipation	sv
dc.subject	long-term	sv
dc.title	The persistence of wealth Economic inequality in a Caribbean slave colony in the very long run	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv