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  • 9 - The Italian Wealth Distribution

  • Bart Danon, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy
    Published online:
    23 July 2025
    Print publication:
    17 July 2025, pp 156-176
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    This chapter shows that Italian households with sufficient wealth for political office outnumbered the men actually holding these offices by a wide margin. It achieves this by estimating the number of Italian households that satisfied the senatorial or equestrian census minimum. A new reconstruction of the distribution of elite wealth in Roman Italy is presented, which is based on an economic (power-law) model combined with a bottom-up (‘tessellated’) approach that expressly takes the heterogeneity of the Italian civitates into account.