What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down

April 4, 2019
What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down

Washington Post | Less than two decades after the Civil War, Southern slave-owning dynasties were back on top of the economic ladder, according to an ambitious new analysis from Leah Boustan (PhD 2006) of Princeton University, Katherine Eriksson of the University of California at Davis and Philipp Ager of the University of Southern Denmark.

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