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Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti, Social Class and the Spirit of Capitalism, Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 3, Issue 2-3, 1 May 2005, Pages 516–524, https://doi.org/10.1162/jeea.2005.3.2-3.516
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Abstract
One of the key social transformations that accompanied the British Industrial Revolution was the economic decline of the aristocracy. Standard theories of wealth inequality cannot explain why the aristocrats, in spite of their superior wealth and education, failed to be the main protagonists and beneficiaries of industrialization. We discuss recent research based on a model of endogenous preferences that is consistent with the demise of aristocracy.
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