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Les échelles des inégalités : nation, région, empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alessandro Stanziani
Alessandro Stanziani*
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Centre de recherches historiques – EHESS
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Résumé

Cet article discute de la spécificité des économies occidentales et, dans ce cadre, des inégalités telles qu’elles sont analysées par Thomas Piketty dans Le capital au XXIe siècle. À cette fin, la pertinence des échelles nationales, régionales, transrégionales et surtout impériales sera discutée par rapport à l’économie historique du développement (la grande divergence), de la fiscalité et de l’action publique.

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Abstract

This paper discusses the specificity of Western economies and, within this framework, of inequalities as envisaged by Thomas Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First Century. 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.

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Lire Le capital de Thomas Piketty
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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 103 - 114
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Copyright © Les Éditions de l’EHESS 2015

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