This contribution to economic and social history examines income inequality in Slovenia over the past 60 years. New archival sources are used to fill gaps in previous studies and are then combined into a synthesis of the evolution of income inequality in Slovenia. Liberal-market reforms of the 1960s and the 1990s transition increased inequality, while the egalitarian reforms of the 1970s decreased it. An idiosyncratic combination of socialist egalitarian institutions together with militant labour and conscious design choices during transition was behind the persistence of low inequality and the Slovenian model of a coordinated market economy.
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