A topic within Economic History, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Economics.
2 works
James E. Thorold Rogers
Reconstructs English prices and wages from manorial and college accounts across six centuries, arguing from the record that the fifteenth-century labourer was better fed than the nineteenth-century one.
link failing as of 17 Sept 2026Thomas Piketty & Emmanuel Saez
Reconstructs top income shares from tax records across the twentieth century and shows inequality fell sharply after 1940 and then returned to early-century levels by the 1990s, driven mostly by wage income rather than capital.
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