Guido Alfani

Publications

Books

As Gods Among Men

A History of the Rich in the West

The Lion's Share

Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe

Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy

The Grand Tour of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Pandemie d'Italia

Dalla peste nera all'influenza suina: l'impatto sulla società

Fathers and Godfathers

Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern Italy

Articles in international peer-reviewed journals

2022 - present

Author(s) Year Title DOI
Alfani, Guido; Bonetti, Marco; Fochesato, Mattia
2023

Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in Northern Italy, Population Studies

Alfani, Guido; Carballo, Alfonso
2023

Income and inequality in the Aztec Empire on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Nature Human Behaviour

Alfani, Guido
2023

A step forward toward solving the main mysteries in the history of plague?, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Alfani, Guido; Montero, Hector García
2022

Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England: A long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries), Economic History Review

Alfani, Guido; Gierok, Victoria; Schaff, Felix
2022

Economic inequality in preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850, Journal of Economic History

Alfani, Guido
2022

Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times, Journal of Economic Literature

2015-2021

Author(s) Year Title DOI
Alfani, Guido
2021

Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond, Journal of Economic Literature

Alfani, Guido; Le Moglie, Marco; Aassve, Arnstein; Gandolfi, Francesco
2021

Epidemics and trust: The case of the Spanish Flu, Health Economics

Alfani, Guido
2020

Pandemics and asymmetric shocks: evidence from the history of plague in Europe and the Mediterranean; Journal for the History of Environment and Society

Alfani, Guido; Percoco, Marco
2019

Plague and long-term development: the lasting effects of the 1629–30 epidemic on the Italian cities, Economic History Review

Alfani, Guido; Bonetti, Marco
2019

A survival analysis of the last great European plagues: The case of Nonantola (Northern Italy) in 1630, Population Studies

Alfani, Guido; Ó Gráda, Cormac
2018

The timing and causes of famines in Europe, Nature Sustainability

Alfani, Guido; Hong, Long; Gigliarano, Chiara; Bonetti, Marco
2018

Giniinc: A Stata package for measuring inequality from incomplete income and survival data, Stata Journal

Alfani, Guido; Ammannati, Francesco
2017

Long-term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine state, c. 1300-1800, Economic History Review

Alfani, Guido; Murphy, Tommy
2017

Plague and lethal epidemics in the Pre Industrial world, Journal of Economic History

Alfani, Guido
2017

The rich in historical perspective. Evidence for preindustrial Europe (ca. 1300-1800), Cliometrica

Alfani, Guido; Dalla Zuanna, Gianpiero; Minello, Alessandra
2017

First signs of transition. The parallel decline of early baptism and early mortality in the province of Padua (North East Italy) 1816-1870, Demographic Research

Alfani, Guido; Ryckbosch, Wouter
2016
Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500-1800, Explorations in Economic History
Alfani, Guido; Frigeni, Roberta
2016

Inequality (Un)perceived: The Emergence of a Discourse on Economic Inequality from the Middle Ages to the Age of Revolution, Journal of European Economic History

Alfani, Guido
2015

Economic inequality in Northwestern Italy: a long-term view (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries), Journal of Economic History

Alfani, Guido; Skirbekk, Vegard; Stonawski, Marcin
2015

Consequences of a universal European demographic transition on regional and global population distributions, Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Alfani, Guido; Bonetti, Marco; Fochesato, Mattia

Pandemics and socio-economic status. Evidence from the plague of 1630 in northern Italy”, Population Studies

Alfani, Guido; Carballo, Alfonso

Income and inequality in the Aztec Empire on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Nature Human Behaviour

Alfani, Guido

A step forward toward solving the main mysteries in the history of plague?, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Alfani, Guido

Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times, Journal of Economic Literature

https://doi.org/

10.1257/jel.20201640

Alfani, Guido; Gierok, Victoria; Schaff, Felix

Economic inequality in preindustrial Germany, ca. 1300–1850, Journal of Economic Histor

https://dx.doi.org/

10.1017/S0022050721000607

Alfani, Guido, Montero, Hector García

Wealth inequality in pre-industrial England: A long-term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries), Economic History Review

https://dx.doi.org/

10.1111/ehr.13158

Alfani, Guido; Le Moglie, Marco; Aassve, Arnstein; Gandolfi, Francesco

Epidemics and trust: The case of the Spanish Flu, Health Economics

https://doi.org/

10.1002/hec.4218

Alfani, Guido

Economic Inequality in Preindustrial Times: Europe and Beyond, Journal of Economic Literature

https://doi.org/10.1257/

jel.20191449

Alfani, Guido

“Pandemics and asymmetric shocks: evidence from the history of plague in Europe and the Mediterranean; Journal for the History of Environment and Society

https://doi.org/10.1484/

J.JHES.5.122475

Alfani, Guido; Bonetti, Marco

A survival analysis of the last great European plagues: The case of Nonantola (Northern Italy) in 1630, Population Studies

https://doi.org/10.1484/

J.JHES.5.122475

Alfani, Guido; Percoco, Marco

Plague and long-term development: the lasting effects of the 1629–30 epidemic on the Italian cities, Economic History Review

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

doi/10.1111/ehr.12652

Alfani, Guido; Ó Gráda, Cormac

The timing and causes of famines in Europe, Nature Sustainability

Alfani, Guido; Dalla Zuanna, Gianpiero; Minello, Alessandra

First signs of transition. The parallel decline of early baptism and early mortality in the province of Padua (North East Italy) 1816-1870, Demographic Research

Alfani, Guido

The rich in historical perspective. Evidence for preindustrial Europe (ca. 1300-1800), Cliometrica

https://doi.org/

10.1007/s11698-016-0151-8

Alfani, Guido, Murphy, Tommy

Plague and lethal epidemics in the Pre-Industrial world, Journal of Economic History

Alfani, Guido; Ammannati, Francesco

Long-term trends in economic inequality: the case of the Florentine state, c. 1300-1800, Economic History Review

https://doi.org/

10.1111/ehr.12471

Alfani, Guido' Ryckbosch, Wouter

Growing apart in early modern Europe? A comparison of inequality trends in Italy and the Low Countries, 1500-1800, Explorations in Economic History

Alfani, Guido

Economic inequality in Northwestern Italy: a long-term view (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries), Journal of Economic History

https://dx.doi.org/

10.1017/S0022050715001539


Pre-2015 and complete list of publications