Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798 (Pittsburgh series in social and labor history)

Soltow, Lee

ISBN 10: 0822936208 / ISBN 13: 9780822936206

Published by Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 1989

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Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Covers are clean and square, and dust jacket has only mild shelf wear. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding is strong. We ship books every day from a real brick & mortar bookstore, and this listing was written by an actual person, with the book sitting in front of me for inspection.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798 (Pittsburgh series in social and labor history)
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822936208
• ISBN 13: 9780822936206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Lee Soltow examines wealth and income in the United States during the Federal period, at a time when state constitutions were formed, national tax laws written, and policies for banking, credit, and debt first formulated. Soltow bases his study on the national census of 1798, which catalogued nearly every piece of property in the United States -land, dwellings, mills, and wharfs-in order to levy the First Direct Tax. He complements this with information from the 1790 and 1800 United States censuses, and with data gathered fifty years before and after this time, to offer an exhaustive survey of the distribution of wealth in early America. He then compares these findings to conditions in Europe during the same period, and discovers that, while wealth in America was not evenly dispersed, it was far more equal than European nations.

About the Author

Lee Soltow was professor of economics at Ohio University, and the author or coauthor of several books, including Men and Wealth in the United States, 1850-70.