Richard, Tilly - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History … 51 (2010) 1, pp. 175-194
This article describes the distribution of personal income in Prussia, Germany′s former largest state, in the period from 1851 to 1875 the classic phase of the German Take-off. Like its many forerunners, it is based on Prussian income tax data. Since these are available at the level of an...