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  • The authors estimate income inequality in the Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Empire. They find that the Han Empire was, overall, more unequal and extractive than the Roman Empire, with the respective one-percenters earning 26% and 19% of total income.

    • Guido Alfani
    • Michele Bolla
    • Walter Scheidel
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-12

  • A new estimate of the income distribution in the Aztec Empire on the eve of the Spanish conquest suggests that inequality was high before the arrival of the Europeans: the richest 1% held 41.8% of the total income.

    • Guido Alfani
    • Alfonso Carballo
    Research
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 7, P: 1265-1274

  • An analysis of famines in England, France and Italy from 1300 to 1850 to determine the ecological and social determinants that cause famines, and their severity and timing. The authors find that Malthusian arguments regarding population density and food production were correct before the Industrial Revolution, with famines being caused by meteorological events; famines did not become ‘man-made’ events until after 1710.

    • Guido Alfani
    • Cormac Ó Gráda
    Research
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 1, P: 283-288