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inequality possibility frontier: a standalone construct

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Economic history

the highest inequality a society could reach while keeping everyone else at subsistence, used to compare how much elites extracted in pre-industrial societies.

In economic history, inequality possibility frontier refers to the highest inequality a society could reach while keeping everyone else at subsistence, used to compare how much elites extracted in pre-industrial societies. This meaning comes from Milanovic (2010) in The Economic Journal.[1]

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References

Milanovic, B., Lindert, P. H., & Williamson, J. G. (2010). Pre‐Industrial Inequality. The Economic Journal, 121(551), 255-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02403.x

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