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Origins and Persistence of Economic Inequality
2010
Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print)
After reviewing the current literature on the causes of economic inequality, the article models the historical emergence of inequality as the result of a key technological change (i.e., the adoption of agriculture) that widened income differentials and led to the construction of state institutions, which shaped (depending on their particular nature, more or less authoritarian) the final distribution of economic assets within and across different societies. The article then explores the
doi:10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.031607.094915
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