Income Inequality and Roman Empire

INEQUALITY

• Gapminder’s (infographic) estimates of Income Inequality, as  used in the one-hour documentary film produced by Wingspan Productions for This World on BBC2, “DON’T PANIC, How to End Poverty”
• University of Texas – Inequality Project
• UNU WIDER – World Income Inequality Data
• Chartbook of Economic Inequality – Economic Inequality over the Long Run
•  The Paris School of Economics – The World Top Incomes Database
• The Paris School of Economics – Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century Resources ( .zip file)
• inequality.org – For some data summaries
• Gini Project – Integrated Gini poverty and inequality dataset for 30 countries over 30 years (Data download)
• LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) Cross National Data Center – User guide, Registration

 

Roman Empire – Data Sources

• Silver Content of a Roman Denarius and other such data for Antiquity
• The Oxford Roman Economy Project