Philipp Erfurth

Social tables are a treasure trove of information - easy to fall into a Rabbit Hole. One example: Mean income of a forestry inspector was higher than for a banker in 1863 Prussia. See my new paper featuring German Social Tables: osf.io/preprints/soca…

Historical social tables: advantages, methodology, and problems A new papee by Erfurth, Gomez Leon, Gabbuti and Milanovic ehes.org/wp-content/upl…

📢 New III working paper: This paper provides a methodological contribution to the study of historical income inequality by examining the construction and use of social tables for the nineteenth century. @BrankoMilan @GGabbuti @Maria0zmg @theErforce buff.ly/2LWqOwU

"Historical social tables: advantages, methodology, and problems", a new paper by P. Erfurth, M. Gómez León, G. Gabbuti & B. Milanovic researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1371…

Social tables are widely used 🌍but how comparable are they across countries and over time? 📚In a new working paper (with @theErforce @Ggabbuti @BrankoMilan) we explore social tables… methodology, advantages, and problems ehvalencia.es/wp-content/upl…

Just out. New Working paper on the use social tables to study historical inequality; their advantages, problems, methodology; by @theErforce , Maria Gomez Leon, Giacomo Gabbuti and myself. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publications/h…

How unequal was a rural society in the Roman Empire? A new WP by Philipp Erfurth @theErforce examines income inequality in rural Roman Egypt in 1st century using daily social tables that build on data from papyri. bit.ly/4aniP7l

This was previously out as Stone Center Working Paper #46 - so many thanks to @stone_lis as well as all colleagues providing invaluable comments and suggestions!

Publication alert🚨 Paper 2/3 of my PhD now out! How did unification in 19th century impact income inequality in DE and IT? Using new social tables for Germany, I study balance of power between core & periphery in newly unified states. Find out more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.irle…

@guido_alfani @oxfordlitfest @PrincetonUPress Was able to attend the discussion of the book in NY. Highly recommended!

If you are in Oxford the coming Friday to attend the @oxfordlitfest, join us for a presentation and discussion of my book 'As Gods Among Men. A History of the Rich in the West' (@PrincetonUPress). #inequality #EconHist oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-eve…

@BrankoMilan Excellent insights on who benefitted (or did not) from growth in the past 30 years and how trends in global inequality changed since the financial crisis. If you are interested in global inequality, this is a must read!

My new paper "The three eras of global income inequality 1820-2020, with the focus on the past 30 years" is just out in World Development. Access is free for 50 days. Here is the link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Delighted to give my first "foreign" talk on "Visions of Inequality" in Mexico City.

Must read!

The 1848 Revolution is possibly one of the most interesting episodes for class/social analysis. It is not surprising that in the Cagé-Piketty book it gets much analyzed, incl. Tocqueville's and Marx's writings on it. See this: globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/11/05/202…

@BrankoMilan Social tables are so useful because they allow us to look at inequality within societies with little or almost no data, esp. tax data. To build a social table, you need incomes of classes and their share in society. See cool use of them in @BrankoMilan ‘s new WP studying the 1%.

The social table for pre-Revolutionary France: 1.9% of population are nobility & clergy, with an average income ~5 times the mean. (From Morrisson & Snyder)

@BrankoMilan Absolute must-read working paper by @BrankoMilan. Social tables are endlessly insightful when it comes to illuminating historical inequality. Great use of social tables in this WP to study the top 1%.

Many interesting results in "How rich were the rich?". Societies w/ the highest income concentration (top 1% share in excess of 30%): Iraq 900, Byzantium 1000, Moscow region 1811, UK 1867, British-ruled Kenya 1927. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research/how-r…

@BrankoMilan Any thoughts why this might be the case?

@BrankoMilan Absolutely true. Curious that Tanizaki refers to money like in the below but without actual amounts: „Taeko already knew the value of money in the bank(..)and she displayed her postal-savings book. If you ever need a little spending money - she added - just let me know“(P. 15)

For example, "The Makioka sisters" which on 600 pages deals almost exclusively with marriage and social class does not provide almost any (or perhaps none at all!) numbers on incomes.

@JanetGornick @lisdata Outstanding job by LIS! 👏

More @lisdata microdata! The LIS and LWS Databases continue to add country-year datasets. Each data release opens new opportunities for comparative research on socio-economic outcomes.🙏

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