Dimitrios Theodoridis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1016535 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dimitrios Theodoridis |
| PRENOMES | Dimitrios |
| SOBRENOME | Theodoridis |
| ASSINATURA | THEODORIDIS D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8125-4859 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Almost perfect inequality
It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little previous evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture, with levels of wealth inequality not necessarily higher than in non-slave societies. Our study contributes to the literature by studying wealth distribution and by estimating the first long-run wealth inequality levels for the Caribbean region, focussing upon the island of St. Croi…
Unsettling the Slave Master
Previous research has characterized those resisting slavery as quite atypical of the enslaved population: most of them being young, male, and engaged in particular occupations. In this article, we study transgressive behavior among an enslaved population quantitatively. We employ a unique census from the Caribbean island of St. Croix in 1846, which allows us to study not only the characteristics of those that transgressed the masters’ order in so…
The failed promise of freedom-Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean
Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were formerly enslaved persons' prospects to improve their socio-economic status like after emancipation? To shed some light on these questions, this paper provides unique empirical evidence on patterns of wealth inequality before and after emancipation for the island of St. Croix, a typical slavery-based sugar island in the Caribbean. Our f…
Reconstructing a slave society
In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for an entire population in the Caribbean over a long time span: the DWI panel. The panel contains over 1.4 million observations spanning 154 years, well over 100 variables, and its records are linked across sources along demographic and geographic lines thr…
Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–1914
The issue of how elites as a social group form, maintain their position, and influence the society they control is central to the debate on inequality. This paper studies one of the most extremely unequal societies ever recorded — the sugar-based economies in the West Indies — by focusing on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies and examines the emergence and persistence of its economic elite. The study relies on a novel dataset that …
Economic inequality in Latin America and Africa, 1650 to 1950
The present article provides a comparative review of historical economic inequality in the two most unequal regions of the world, namely Latin America and Africa. This contribution examines novel studies that provide quantitative estimates of income and/or wealth inequality in the two continents in terms of sources, methods, results and interpretations, focusing on the period 1650 to 1950. The article shows that although scholars in the two regio…
Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective
India has played an important role in recent debates on the development of agriculture during colonial rule, and on the performance of US cotton plantations during the nineteenth century. The debates suffer from a lack of quantitative evidence on the productivity of Indian cotton cultivation. In this article, we examine levels of land and labour productivity in cotton cultivation in nineteenth-century India, and compare this data with correspondi…
Colonialism and Trade
The British colonies, which contributed the lion's share of Britain's geographical expansion during the nineteenth century, also provided the largest material contribution to Britain's industrialization, and much-needed ecological relief (in the form of land), through trade. Nevertheless, not all types of colonialism mattered equally. The biggest land relief came from the settler colonies in British North America and Australasia. The slave-based …
African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade
Agriculture has played a central role in Africa's long-term economic development. Previous research has argued that the low productivity of African economies has posed significant challenges to African efforts to produce an agricultural surplus or to develop commercial agriculture. Low agricultural productivity has also served as a key explanation for the transatlantic slave trade, on the basis that it was more profitable to export humans oversea…
Trade and overcoming land constraints in British industrialization
Land was an unambiguous constraint for growth in the pre-industrial period. In Britain it was overcome partly through the transition from traditional land-based goods to coal (vertical expansion) and partly through accessing overseas land, primarily from colonies (horizontal expansion). Kenneth Pomeranz suggested that horizontal expansion may have outweighed vertical expansion in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Taking a more complete…
Sense of Coherence (SOC) in Christian Orthodox Monks and Nuns in Greece
Health-related quality of life of a very special population
Economic inequality in Latin America and Africa, 1650 to 1950
The present article provides a comparative review of historical economic inequality in the two most unequal regions of the world, namely Latin America and Africa. This contribution examines novel studies that provide quantitative estimates of income and/or wealth inequality in the two continents in terms of sources, methods, results and interpretations, focusing on the period 1650 to 1950. The article shows that although scholars in the two regio…
Trade and overcoming land constraints in British industrialization
Land was an unambiguous constraint for growth in the pre-industrial period. In Britain it was overcome partly through the transition from traditional land-based goods to coal (vertical expansion) and partly through accessing overseas land, primarily from colonies (horizontal expansion). Kenneth Pomeranz suggested that horizontal expansion may have outweighed vertical expansion in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Taking a more complete…
The failed promise of freedom-Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean
Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were formerly enslaved persons' prospects to improve their socio-economic status like after emancipation? To shed some light on these questions, this paper provides unique empirical evidence on patterns of wealth inequality before and after emancipation for the island of St. Croix, a typical slavery-based sugar island in the Caribbean. Our f…
Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective
India has played an important role in recent debates on the development of agriculture during colonial rule, and on the performance of US cotton plantations during the nineteenth century. The debates suffer from a lack of quantitative evidence on the productivity of Indian cotton cultivation. In this article, we examine levels of land and labour productivity in cotton cultivation in nineteenth-century India, and compare this data with correspondi…
African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade
Agriculture has played a central role in Africa's long-term economic development. Previous research has argued that the low productivity of African economies has posed significant challenges to African efforts to produce an agricultural surplus or to develop commercial agriculture. Low agricultural productivity has also served as a key explanation for the transatlantic slave trade, on the basis that it was more profitable to export humans oversea…
Sense of Coherence (SOC) in Christian Orthodox Monks and Nuns in Greece
Health-related quality of life of a very special population
Trade and overcoming land constraints in British industrialization
Land was an unambiguous constraint for growth in the pre-industrial period. In Britain it was overcome partly through the transition from traditional land-based goods to coal (vertical expansion) and partly through accessing overseas land, primarily from colonies (horizontal expansion). Kenneth Pomeranz suggested that horizontal expansion may have outweighed vertical expansion in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Taking a more complete…
African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade
Agriculture has played a central role in Africa's long-term economic development. Previous research has argued that the low productivity of African economies has posed significant challenges to African efforts to produce an agricultural surplus or to develop commercial agriculture. Low agricultural productivity has also served as a key explanation for the transatlantic slave trade, on the basis that it was more profitable to export humans oversea…
Economic inequality in Latin America and Africa, 1650 to 1950
The present article provides a comparative review of historical economic inequality in the two most unequal regions of the world, namely Latin America and Africa. This contribution examines novel studies that provide quantitative estimates of income and/or wealth inequality in the two continents in terms of sources, methods, results and interpretations, focusing on the period 1650 to 1950. The article shows that although scholars in the two regio…
Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective
India has played an important role in recent debates on the development of agriculture during colonial rule, and on the performance of US cotton plantations during the nineteenth century. The debates suffer from a lack of quantitative evidence on the productivity of Indian cotton cultivation. In this article, we examine levels of land and labour productivity in cotton cultivation in nineteenth-century India, and compare this data with correspondi…
Colonialism and Trade
The British colonies, which contributed the lion's share of Britain's geographical expansion during the nineteenth century, also provided the largest material contribution to Britain's industrialization, and much-needed ecological relief (in the form of land), through trade. Nevertheless, not all types of colonialism mattered equally. The biggest land relief came from the settler colonies in British North America and Australasia. The slave-based …
Reconstructing a slave society
In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for an entire population in the Caribbean over a long time span: the DWI panel. The panel contains over 1.4 million observations spanning 154 years, well over 100 variables, and its records are linked across sources along demographic and geographic lines thr…
Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–1914
The issue of how elites as a social group form, maintain their position, and influence the society they control is central to the debate on inequality. This paper studies one of the most extremely unequal societies ever recorded — the sugar-based economies in the West Indies — by focusing on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies and examines the emergence and persistence of its economic elite. The study relies on a novel dataset that …
Unsettling the Slave Master
Previous research has characterized those resisting slavery as quite atypical of the enslaved population: most of them being young, male, and engaged in particular occupations. In this article, we study transgressive behavior among an enslaved population quantitatively. We employ a unique census from the Caribbean island of St. Croix in 1846, which allows us to study not only the characteristics of those that transgressed the masters’ order in so…
The failed promise of freedom-Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean
Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were formerly enslaved persons' prospects to improve their socio-economic status like after emancipation? To shed some light on these questions, this paper provides unique empirical evidence on patterns of wealth inequality before and after emancipation for the island of St. Croix, a typical slavery-based sugar island in the Caribbean. Our f…
Almost perfect inequality
It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little previous evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture, with levels of wealth inequality not necessarily higher than in non-slave societies. Our study contributes to the literature by studying wealth distribution and by estimating the first long-run wealth inequality levels for the Caribbean region, focussing upon the island of St. Croi…
Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (7 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · History (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 obras) · Inequality (4 obras) · Archaeology (3 obras)