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.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.identifier.issn	1653-1000 online version
dc.identifier.issn	1653-1019 print version
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2077/80217
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

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