A capital's capital : two hundred years of wealth and inequality in Paris /

A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay between wealth, inequality, and welfare Successful economies sustain capital accumulation across generations, and capital accumulation leads to large increases in private wealth.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Postel-Vinay, Gilles (Author), Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
©2026
Series:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Description
Summary:A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay between wealth, inequality, and welfare Successful economies sustain capital accumulation across generations, and capital accumulation leads to large increases in private wealth.
Physical Description:1 online resource (438 pages ): illustrations (black and white.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780691276137 (electronic bk.)
0691276137