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Level of Income and Income Distribution in Mid-18th Century France, According to Francois Quesnay

2010; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.1731370

1556-5068

Branko Milanović,

Income, Poverty, and Inequality

The paper uses the data from Francois Quesnay's writings to derive a social table for pre-revolutionary France, estimate country's mean income and income distribution. These Quesnay-based estimates are compared with more recent estimates of 18th century French incomes and inequality.