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Scales of Inequality: Nation, Region, Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2017

Alessandro Stanziani
Alessandro Stanziani*
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Centre de recherches historiques – EHESS
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This article discusses the specificity of Western economies and, within this framework, of inequality as envisaged by Thomas Piketty. To this end, it considers the relevance of national, regional, trans-regional, and above all imperial scales of analysis, particularly in regard to the historical dynamics of development (the “Great Divergence”), the fiscal state, and welfare.

Type
Reading Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Information
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales - English Edition , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 99 - 109
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Copyright © Les Éditions de l’EHESS 2015

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