Guido Alfani
@guido_alfani
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Economic historian & Historical demographer @Unibocconi and @DondenaCentre. Working on the history of inequality and social mobility. Add pandemics and stir.
Bocconi University, Milan.
Joined February 2020
An opinion piece on the social role of the rich, today and in the past, @nytimes - adapted from my new book, 'As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West', @PrincetonUPress What Happens When the Super Rich Are This Selfish? (It Isn’t Pretty.)
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RT @wjpme: @EBHarrington great listen on Thinking Allowed on @BBCRadio4 today. With @guido_alfani. Essential listening. Thanks @JayneEEgert…
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A great article by @brianklaas on the social role of the ultra wealthy - with some generous discussion of my book As Gods Among Men (@PrincetonUPress) 🙏
"The role of the ultra-wealthy has morphed from one of shared social responsibility and patronage to the freewheeling celebration of selfish opulence," @brianklaas writes:
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RT @isabeldiaz2011: Per a què serveixen els rics? Això i més en aquesta conversa que vam enregistrar, ara fa uns mesos, amb @guido_alfani…
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RT @eugenio_cau: Nella puntata di Globo di questa settimana spieghiamo perché, per capire il rapporto tra Donald Trump ed Elon Musk, bisogn…
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Nella puntata discutiamo del mio recente libro "Come dèi fra gli uomini. Una storia dei ricchi in Occidente" (@editorilaterza) #Disuguaglianza
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RT @voxeu: Top #wealth shares in the long run of history (ca. 1300-today) Guido Alfani @guido_alfani @DondenaCentre @unibocconi
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RT @GGabbuti: Nel pezzo di @rsta su @ilvenerdi di oggi (grazie!), io e @MorelliSal siamo in gran bella compagnia - tra chi è qua, @ValeryC…
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RT @SheilaghOgilvie: Great studies I came across writing “Controlling Contagion” @PrincetonUPress A cool paper by…
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7/7 If you want to know more, beyond the column, also check my book 🙂: As Gods Among Men. A History of the Rich in the West (@PrincetonUPress). #inequality #EconHist
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4/7 Focusing on the Modern Age: the first phase of inequality decline in the 20th C is connected to the World Wars, but it is not only catastrophes-induced: the expansion of progressive taxation mattered – as it did after WW2.
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3/7 Italy, of course, did not exist as a unified country before 1861, so the previous graph reports the average of 4 pre-unification states: unpacked here (top5%), with the addition of England and Germany (also not a unified country before 1871, mind…)
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2/7 During the last 7 centuries or so wealth has tended to become ever more concentrated in few hands – observe the “one-percenters”👇 With two exceptions: the period following the Black Death pandemic of 1347-52, and that from the beginning of World War I until the mid-1970s.
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