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Book review of Ten Thousand Years of Inequality. The Archaeology of Wealth Differences

Edited by Timothy A. Kohler and Michael E. Smith, Tucson: Arizona University Press, 2018. pp. ix, 337. ISBN: 978-0-8165-3774-7 (pbk), 978-0-8165-3944-4 (hbk), 978-0-8165-3836-2 (ebook)

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Vecchi, G. Book review of Ten Thousand Years of Inequality. The Archaeology of Wealth Differences. J Econ Inequal 17, 591–594 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-019-09421-x

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