Wealth is, rather obviously, a sign of inequality. Guido Alfani, of Bocconi's Department of Social and Political Sciences, has described the evolution of social inequalities and the attitudes of common people toward the rich over the last 1,000 years. Alfani's book, "As Gods Among Men", published by Princeton University Press, won significant acclaim on international media and is now available in Europe after its release in the US at the end of 2023. Here is the book's foreword, courtesy of the author and of the publisher.

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