The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe

by Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio

This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. Using data from the archives of the Venetian Terraferma, and compared with information available for elsewhere in Europe, Guido Alfani and Matteo Di Tullio demonstrate that the rise of the fiscal-military state served to increase economic inequality in the early modern period. Preindustrial fiscal systems tended to be regressive in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110847621X
• ISBN13: 9781108476218
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 9.3"