A Capital ' s Capital - Two Hundred Years of Wealth and Inequality in Paris

A Capital’s Capital: Two Hundred Years of Wealth and Inequality in Paris

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English | 2026 | ISBN: 0691276110 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 21.23 MB
A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay among wealth, inequality, and welfare
Successful economies sustain capital accumulation across generations, and capital accumulation leads to large increases in private wealth. In this book, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal map the fluctuations in wealth and its distribution in Paris between 1807 and 1977. Drawing on a unique dataset of the bequests of almost 800,000 Parisians, they show that real wealth per decedent varied immensely during this period while inequality began high and declined only slowly. Parisians’ portfolios document startling changes in the geography and types of wealth over time.