families {netCoin}

Data: Italian families in the Renaissance.

Description

Data frame with the characteristics of powerful families of Renaissance Italy.

Usage

data("families")

Format

A data frame with 16 families (rows) and 6 characteristics.

name

Family's name

f.Marriages

number of marriage links

f.Business

number of business links

wealth

wealth's index

priorates

number of priorates on control

seat

At least priorate

Source

PADGETT, J. F. Y C. K. ANSELL (1993): "Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434", in American Journal of Sociology, 98, 1259-1319. (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2781822)

Examples

data("families")
head(families)