Timothy A. Kohler, Michael E. Smith

Broschiertes Buch

Ten Thousand Years of Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences

Beschreibung

Presents the first set of consistent quantitative measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini index, a statistical measure of wealth distribution often used by economists to measure contemporary inequality, and applied it to house-size distributions over time and around the world.

Autor

Timothy A. Kohler is a regents professor of anthropology at Washington State University. His most recent book, edited with Mark D. Varien, is Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages: Models of Central Mesa Verde Archaeology. Michael E. Smith is a professor of archaeology at Arizona State University. His latest book is the prize-winning At Home with the Aztecs: An Archaeologist Uncovers Their Daily Life.

Produktdetails

• Amerind Studies in Archaeology
• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780816539444
• ISBN-10: 0816539448
• Artikelnr.: 54372324