Relative costs of living, for richer and poorer, 1688–1914

IF 1.5 1区历史学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Cliometrica Pub Date : 2020-01-22 DOI:10.1007/s11698-019-00197-8

Vincent Geloso, Peter Lindert

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Abstract

The kinds of goods that richer and poorer households consumed differed more strongly in the past than today. Movements in the relative prices of luxury goods versus staples caused the real inequality to oscillate in ways missed by the usual historiography of (nominal) inequality. On both sides of the North Atlantic and in Australia, real inequality rose substantially less in 1800–1914 than the literature on nominal inequality has revealed. The reasons for this relate to the relative decline of food prices, rural–urban price gaps, and the delayed rise of luxury service prices, especially after 1850. Throughout these centuries, the North Americans enjoyed lower living costs than their counterparts in England.

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1688-1914 年富人和穷人的相对生活费用

过去，富裕家庭和贫困家庭消费的商品种类差异比今天更大。奢侈品相对于主食的相对价格变动导致了实际不平等的波动，而通常的（名义）不平等史学却忽略了这一点。在北大西洋两岸和澳大利亚，1800-1914 年实际不平等的上升幅度大大低于名义不平等文献所揭示的程度。其原因与食品价格的相对下降、城乡价格差距以及奢侈服务价格的延迟上涨有关，尤其是在 1850 年之后。在这几个世纪中，北美人的生活成本一直低于英国人。

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