21st International Congress of Historical Sciences
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (22-28 August, 2010)
IEHA Session
International Economic History Association
Global Inequality in the Long Run – New Evidence and New Measurement Concepts
Organizer: Joerg Baten, joerg.baten@uni-tuebingen.de
Description: How did inequality around the globe develop in the long
run? How can we measure various aspects of inequality? This session
firstly draws together new evidence on income inequality, especially
in today’s developing and emerging market countries and world regions,
such as Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It secondly aims at comparing
classical income inequality concepts with other approaches of
measuring inequality, such as height inequality, human capital
inequality, and the systematic comparison of real wage per GDP/p with
gini coefficients of income inequality. Third, and on the basis of
these new evidence and concepts, the session aims to promote the
analysis of global inequality trends. Doing this, a fascinating new
picture of global divergence and convergence movements is drawn.
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