| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23897 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23897 |
| The Social Implications of Sugar: Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774 | |
| Trevor Burnard; Laura Panza; Jeffrey G. Williamson | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-10-09 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony had extremely high living costs, which rose steeply during the American War of Independence, and low standards of living, particularly for its enslaved population. Our results also show that due to its extreme poverty surrounding extreme wealth Jamaica was the most unequal place in the pre-modern world. Furthermore, all of these characteristics applied to the free population alone. |
| 主题 | History ; Macroeconomic History ; Labor and Health History ; Development and Growth ; Country Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23897 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581570 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Trevor Burnard,Laura Panza,Jeffrey G. Williamson. The Social Implications of Sugar: Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774. 2017. |
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| w23897.pdf（380KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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