Five centuries of Latin American income inequality

Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-252

  Williamson, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

D3; desarrollo; desigualdad; development; inequality; Latin America; Latinoam rica; N16; N36; O15

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924994364     PISSN: 02126109     EISSN: 20413335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0212610910000078     Document Type: Article

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