Ten thousand years of inequality: the archaeology of wealth differences
Éditeur :
University of Arizona Press
ISBN :
9780816539444
Date de publication :
19 févr. 2019
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
498 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Presents the first set of consistent quantitative measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini index, a statistical measure of wealth distribution often used by economists to measure contemporary inequality, and applied it to house-size distributions over time and around the world.