COŞGEL, METIN M.; ERGENE, BOĞAÇ A. - In: The Journal of Economic History 72 (2012) 02, pp. 308-331
This article offers a quantitative analysis of wealth inequality in the Ottoman Empire, employing data from probate inventories (<italic>tereke</italic>s) of eighteenth-century Kastamonu, a town located in northern Anatolia. Extracting information on wealth levels and personal characteristics of individuals, we...