Relative costs of living, for richer and poorer, 1688–1914
Relative costs of living, for richer and poorer, 1688–1914
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富人和穷人的相对生活成本，1688 年至 1914 年
DOI：
10.1007/s11698-019-00197-8
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发表时间：
2019
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影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
P. Lindert
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作者：
Vincent J. Geloso;P. Lindert
过去富裕家庭和贫穷家庭消费的商品种类差异比现在更大。奢侈品与必需品相对价格的变动导致了实际不平等的波动，而通常的（名义）不平等史学却忽略了这种波动。在北大西洋两岸和澳大利亚，1800年至1914年间，实际不平等的加剧程度远低于有关名义不平等的文献所揭示的程度。造成这种情况的原因与食品价格的相对下降、城乡价格差距以及奢侈品服务价格的延迟上涨有关，尤其是在1850年之后。几个世纪以来，北美人的生活成本一直低于英国人。
The kinds of goods that richer and poorer households consumed differed more strongly in the past than today. Movements in the relative prices of luxury goods versus staples caused the real inequality to oscillate in ways missed by the usual historiography of (nominal) inequality. On both sides of the North Atlantic and in Australia, real inequality rose substantially less in 1800–1914 than the literature on nominal inequality has revealed. The reasons for this relate to the relative decline of food prices, rural–urban price gaps, and the delayed rise of luxury service prices, especially after 1850. Throughout these centuries, the North Americans enjoyed lower living costs than their counterparts in England.