Top Wealth and Its Historical Origins: Identifying Entrenched Fortunes by Linking Rich Lists over 100 Years
The authors examine the historical origins of Germany’s 1,032 largest fortunes. The innovation of this research is to link a rich list from 2019 with rich lists from 1913 and genealogical data provided in Wikidata. The authors find a remarkable historical continuity of large fortunes despite two wor...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2023-09-01
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Series: | Socius |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231192774 |