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Who’s Afraid of Gregory Clark?

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Abstract

In this brief comment on Gregory Clark’s book manuscript To Have and Have Not: The Determinants of Social Status in England, 1600-2026, I consider why academic institutions have treated the work and its author unjustly.

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  • Noah Carl
Keywords social mobility, heritability, assortative mating, cultural transmission, confounding, identificatio
Volume Number 23
Issue Number 2
Pages 541–544
File URL Who’s Afraid of Gregory Clark?
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Publication year 2026

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