Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011
Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes as unequal as they are … today? This article infers inequality across individuals within each of the 28 pre-industrial societies, for which data were … available, using what are known as social tables. It applies two new concepts: the inequality possibility frontier and the …