Inequality in pre-industrial Bohemia: The city of Budweis

IF 2.2 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Post-Communist Economies Pub Date : 2023-02-21 DOI:10.1080/14631377.2023.2174923

Daniel Kolar

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Distributional information can shed new light on societies and their well-being, now and in the past. This article constructs historical wealth inequality statistics for Budweis, a large town in South Bohemia. Utilised data sources include rare detailed local tax censuses from 1416 and 1523 and a national tax register from 1654, as reported in the literature, further adjusted for the lowest social groups and processed to create social tables. If the underlying data are accurate, the wealth inequality Gini coefficient in 1416 was between 0.739 and 0.777. The estimated wealth share of the top 1% was 22.6% in 1416 and 14.2% in 1523, which is notably less than in the pre-industrial UK or France, as well as in the present-day Czech Republic. The findings support the notion of an egalitarian rather than individualistic pre-industrial Bohemian society.

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工业化前波西米亚的不平等:百威之城

分布信息可以揭示社会及其福祉的新曙光，无论是现在还是过去。本文对波希米亚南部的一个大城镇Budweis进行了历史财富不平等统计。所使用的数据来源包括1416年和1523年罕见的详细的地方税收普查，以及1654年的全国税收登记册，如文献所述，对最低的社会群体进行了进一步调整，并进行了处理，形成了社会表格。如果基础数据准确，那么1416年的财富不平等基尼系数在0.739到0.777之间。1416年和1523年，最富有1%人群的财富占比分别为22.6%和14.2%，明显低于工业化前的英国和法国，也低于今天的捷克共和国。这些发现支持了平等主义的观念，而不是个人主义的前工业波西米亚社会。

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Post-Communist Economies ECONOMICS-

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4.90

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18.20%

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期刊介绍： Post-Communist Economies publishes key research and policy articles in the analysis of post-communist economies. The basic transformation in the past two decades through stabilisation, liberalisation and privatisation has been completed in virtually all of the former communist countries, but despite the dramatic changes that have taken place, the post-communist economies still form a clearly identifiable group, distinguished by the impact of the years of communist rule. Post-communist economies still present distinctive problems that make them a particular focus of research.