La desigualdad regional, económica y social durante el siglo XIX. Investigaciones para un viejo problema

Abstract

An open and developing field in economic historiography is constituted by studies on inequality. Searching for its origins, identifying the periods of the highest percentage, recognizing the factors that explain its increase or decrease, encouraged a series of investigations that originated, not coincidentally, at the beginning of the 2000s. We propose to take a tour of the studies dedicated to this problem from a double cut. On the one hand, we will select a series of publications whose authors are historians and, on the other, we will focus on those that have been dedicated to the study of inequality during the nineteenth century in some of the regions that make up the current Argentine territory: Buenos Aires and the coast. In the analysis of the selected publications we intend to identify regions and periods addressed, issues raised, methodologies used, sources used and finally we propose to observe whether to explain inequality include political factors or if only variables and economic factors are taken into account.