Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T08:13:25.774Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2016), Unequal gains: American growth and inequality since 1700, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, £27.95, pp. 424, hbk.

Review products

Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2016), Unequal gains: American growth and inequality since 1700, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, £27.95, pp. 424, hbk.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2017

BERNARD HARRIS
BERNARD HARRIS*
Affiliation:
University of Strathclydebernard.harris@strath.ac.uk
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Review
Information
Journal of Social Policy , Volume 46 , Special Issue 4: Brexit Special Issue , October 2017 , pp. 851 - 853
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Fogel, R. (1986), ‘Nutrition and the decline in mortality since 1700: some preliminary findings’, in Engerman, S.L. and Gallman, R.E., eds., Long-term factors in American economic growth, Chicago: University of Chicago Press and NBER, 439–555.Google Scholar
Komlos, J. (1996), ‘Anomalies in economic history: toward a resolution of the “antebellum puzzle”, Journal of Economic History, 56 (1), 202–14.Google Scholar
Lindert, P.H. and Williamson, J.G. (1976), ‘Three centuries of American inequality’, Research in Economic History, 1, 69–123.Google Scholar
Lindert, P.H. and Williamson, J.G. (1983), ‘English workers’ living standards during the industrial revolution: a new look’, Economic History Review, 36 (1), 1–25.Google Scholar
Lindert, P.H. and Williamson, J.G. (1985), ‘Growth, inequality and history’, Explorations in Economic History, 22 (4), 341–77.Google Scholar
Lindert, P.H. and Williamson, J.G. (2003), ‘Does globalisation make the world more equal?’, in Bordo, M.D., Taylor, A.M. and Williamson, J.G., eds., Globalisation in historical perspective, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 227–70.Google Scholar
Maddison, A. (2006), The world economy, Paris: OECD.Google Scholar
Piketty, T. (2014), Capital in the twenty-first century, Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed