Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2025-02-19
Books mentioned on Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus)
How much of your life's trajectory was set in motion centuries ago? Gregory Clark has spent decades studying social mobility, and his findings suggest that where you land in society is far more predictable than we like to think.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Farewell to arms
Discussed“his book from 2007 A Farewell to alms presented a new theory of economic growth human progress and the Industrial Revolution I end up as one of the blubbers and I called it as I wrote In The New York Times the next Blockbuster in economics”
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The Son Also Rises
Discussed“his book after that the Sun s so n Also Rises surnames in the history of social Mobility among other things argues that rates of social Mobility have been much less much more static much harder to change than many people believe”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book A Farewell to arms
“in my earlier book right uh Farewell to Arms it said there's essentially only two great problems in the economic history of the world the first is the incredible long delay in the arrival of the indust Industrial Revolution”
Own book The Son Also Rises
“and it turns out so in again in the the book uh uh On The Sun Also Rises you can examine uh just looking at surnames different groups within us society”
Passing For Whom the Bell Tolls
“I'll just note Greg is uh in the process of producing a new book I believe the title is for whom the bell curve TOS genetics and social life in England 1600 to 225”