Economic Inequality in Northwestern Italy: A Long-Term View (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
研究了1300-1800年意大利西北部皮埃蒙特的财富分配不平等，发现近代早期不平等普遍增长，与经济发展无关，强调人口过程的作用。
This article provides a picture of economic inequality in northwestern Italy (Piedmont), 1300–1800. Regional studies of this kind are rare, and none has as long a timescale. The new data proposed illuminate little-known aspects of wealth distribution and general economic inequality in preindustrial times, supporting the idea that during the Early Modern period, inequality grew everywhere, independently from whether the economy was growing or stagnating. This challenges earlier views that explained inequality growth as the consequence of economic development. The importance of demographic processes is underlined, and the impact of the Black Death and other mortality crises is analyzed.