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The Son Also Rises is a 2014 non-fiction book on the study of social mobility by the economist Gregory Clark. It is based on historical estimates of social mobility in various countries made by Clark in collaboration with other researchers, though Clark takes pains to point out from the start the controversial conclusions he draws are his alone ...
Feb 23, 2014 · "The Son Also Rises makes for stimulating reading, and I recommend it."—Chris Minns, Investigaciones de Historia Economica "In a fascinating and extraordinary use of historical data, Clark and his 11 collaborators, including Neil Cummins, Yu Hao, and Daniel Diaz, creatively correlate surnames with wealth, educational attainment, and class in ...
Aug 25, 2015 · The "Son Also Rises" was a fascinating read that seems likely to provoke controversy, but also to advance evidence-based discussions of equality and social mobility. Clark makes two major (somewhat separable) arguments in "Rises". First, that social mobility is much lower, and consistent across societies than anyone would have predicted.
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First edition of The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926 by Scribner's, with dust jacket illustrated by Cleon ( Cleo Damianakes ). The Hellenistic jacket design "breathed sex yet also evoked classical Greece". [1] The Sun Also Rises is the first novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway. It portrays American and British expatriates who travel ...
His debut novel was titled “The Sun Also Rises” and was dedicated to his wife, Hadley Richardson, and their son, John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway, known simply as Jack. The moniker Nicanor was bestowed upon the infant in admiration of the famous Spanish matador, Nicanor Villalta y Serrés. Jack Hemingway grew up surrounded by some of the most ...
Feb 23, 2014 · The thesis of The Son Also Rises is, fundamentally, that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Ingeniously, Clark and his team of researchers look at the persistence of socioeconomic status through the lens of surnames in more than 20 societies. ---Tim Sullivan, Harvard Business Review. One of Vox’s "Best Books We Read in 2014".
More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique—tracking family names over generations to measure social mobility across countries and ...
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