THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF SUGAR: LIVING COSTS, REAL INCOMES AND INEQUALITY IN JAMAICA C1774 by Jeffrey G. Williamson, Trevor Burnard, Laura Panza
THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF SUGAR: LIVING COSTS, REAL INCOMES AND INEQUALITY IN JAMAICA C1774

Jeffrey G. Williamson, Trevor Burnard, Laura Panza

THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF SUGAR: LIVING COSTS, REAL INCOMES AND INEQUALITY IN JAMAICA C1774

NBER Working Paper Series

Jeffrey G. Williamson, Trevor Burnard, Laura Panza

41 pages first pub 2017 (editions) not a book user-added

nonfiction history

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This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony h...

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