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1. Epidemics and pandemics : from the justinianic plague to the Spanish flu

Alfani, Guido;
2023
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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2. Poverty in early modern Europe : new approaches to old problems

abstract

Earlier research on poverty failed to provide us with consistent measures of its prevalence across space and time. This is due to the limitations of the available sources and to the difficulty of applying to them the poverty definitions of modern social science. This article discusses different possible approaches to poverty measurement and the problems encountered when applying them to historical sources. Thereafter it proposes a way to measure absolute and, more importantly, relative poverty which makes good use of the information made available by recent research on inequality. We detect a long-run tendency towards an increase in the prevalence of poverty, both in the South and in the North of Europe. This trend was only temporarily interrupted by large-scale plague and other catastrophes, although the Black Death had stronger and more persistent poverty-reducing effects. Our approach, which this article applies mostly to Italy, the Low Countries and partially Germany and other areas, could be used for even broader international comparisons.

Alfani, Guido; Ammannati, Francesco; Ryckbosch, Wouter;
2022
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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3. Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England : a long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)

Alfani, Guido; García Montero, Hector;
2022
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 1 (based on OpenCitations) Cited By

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4. Economic inequality in preindustrial Germany : ca. 1300-1850

Alfani, Guido; Gierok, Victoria; Schaff, Felix;
2022
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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5. As gods among men : a history of the rich in the West

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"All human societies, from prehistory through to today, have been characterized by some degree of economic inequality. Arguably, complex societies would not have thrived if they had been unable to concentrate and redistribute resources effectively. We frequently talk about the top 5% or 1% today but, as Guido Alfani explains in this book, concerns about the rich and super-rich and their potential to influence contemporary politics and society are nothing new - just take the Medici family and Renaissance Tuscany as one example. The medieval theologian Nicole Oresme's fear of the super-rich individual acting "as God among men" resonates with much of what present-day economist Thomas Piketty cautioned against in his landmark Capital in the Twentieth Century. As Gods Among Men represents the first scholarly attempt to provide a general overview of role and significance of the rich and the super-rich in the long run of history. With a focus on the West, particularly Europe and North America, Alfani's research spans a thousand years of history. He draws from a wealth of comparative data, as well as insights gleaned from the latest research in economic history, sociology, and anthropology, to show how society's problematic relationship with the super-rich cannot be fully understood without a careful analysis of the ways in which they have built their enormous wealth, and how they have used that wealth to gain influence. Alfani highlights important aspects of their behavior, such as their attitudes toward saving and consumption, or their propensity to act as patrons of the arts and of the sciences or as benefactors of the weakest part of society, to build up a profile of the richest members of our society and to trace patterns throughout history, underlining elements of both continuity and change over the period."

Alfani, Guido;
2023

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6. Epidemics and trust : the case of the Spanish flu

Aassve, Arnstein; Alfani, Guido; Gandolfi, Francesco; Le Moglie, Marco;
2020
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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7. The determinants of wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice (1400-1800)

Alfani, Guido; Tullio, M. Di; Fochesato, M.;
2020
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
Availability: Link

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8. Epidemics, inequality and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial times

Alfani, Guido;
2020
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
Availability: Link

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9. Pandemics and asymmetric shocks : evidence from the history of plaguein Europe and the Mediterranean

Alfani, Guido;
2020
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
Availability: Link

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10. Poverty in early modern Europe: New approaches to old problems

Alfani, Guido; Ammannati, Francesco; Ryckbosch, Wouter;
2022
Type: Working Paper;
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