Per-capita income and inequality in the Roman and Han Empires. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58581-0 A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, in the U.S., has found that there was more economic inequality under the Han Dynasty than during the Roman Empire. In their study published in the journal Nature Communications, Guido Alfani, Michele Bolla and Walter Scheidel applied modern ec...