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Oddly, no one has ever systematically pursued Kuznets’s work, no doubt in part because the historical and statistical study of tax records falls into a sort of academic no- man’s-land, too historical for economists and too economistic for historians. Th at is a pity, because the dynamics of income in e quality can only be studied in a long-run perspective, which is possible only if one makes use of tax rec ords.