An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 449-470

  Milanovic, Branko ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 33747237621     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2006.00198.x     Document Type: Review

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