> 富不过三代。——中国谚语
并不是这样。Gregory Clark 对此写过一本神书《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭）。在他测算过的每一个社会里，社会地位的遗传力都在 0.7 左右。这都快赶上智商遗传力估值的上限了。为了说明社会地位/角色的遗传力有多强大……
> Wealth does not pass three generations. - Chinese proverb Not true. Gregory Clark has an awesome book on this, The Son Also Rises. Social status has a heritability of 0.7ish in every society he measured it in. That's almost as high as the upper bound estimate for IQ. To give an idea of how powerful heritability of social status/roles…
……需要一些补充材料。这里有几本这类书我读得很过瘾：色诺芬的《Anabasis》（长征记）、约瑟夫·康拉德的《Heart of Darkness》（黑暗的心）、纳西姆·塔勒布的《Antifragile》（反脆弱）、马丁·塞利格曼的《Learned Optimism》（活出乐观的自己）、Gregory Clark 的《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭）
…require additional materials. Here are some titles of that kind I enjoyed. Anabasis by Xenophon Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Antifragile by Nassim Taleb Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman The Son also Rises by Gregory Clark
……前工业化时代。因此，种种迹象表明存在一种底层的“社会物理学”，而且对政府干预有着惊人的免疫力。* 上面那篇文章的合著者 Gregory Clark 写过一本很棒的书《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭），链接里的文章讲的就是关于他这项社会流动性研究的内容。在不同社会之间，它基本上是恒定不变的。
…preindustrial times. Thus there are indications of an underlying social physics surprisingly immune to government intervention.* Gregory Clark, co-author of the above article wrote an excellent book, The Son Also Rises, the topic of the linked article about his research into social mobility. It's basically invariant across societies.
……甚至跨越文化大革命这种时期，也能发现几乎完全相同的规律——我听说那段时期对继承下来的家底打击可不小。关于这一点的推荐读物（正如楼下某个老评论串里提到的）是 Clark 的《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭）( http://amzn.to/2jFnUmZ )。
…find much the same pattern even across say the cultural revolution, which I hear was rather rough on inherited nest eggs. The rec. book on this (as in one of the old comment threads below) is Clark, "The Son Also Rises" ( http://amzn.to/2jFnUmZ ).
……控制父母因素之后）在欧洲以及一些东方国家已经被证明确实如此。Gregory Clark 就此写过一本书，当时引起了广泛讨论。https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book) 核心观点在于，家族在多代（超过5代）之间传递了某种东西，这种东西对经济成功有着持久而强大的影响，而且这几乎肯定不是金钱（金钱……
…controlling for parents) has already been found to be robustly true in Europe and some eastern countries. Gregory Clark wrote a book on it that was widely discussed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book) The point is that families transmit something across multiple (> 5 generations) that's responsible for strong persistent effects on economic success, and it's almost certainly not money (which…
……职业），那你大概率也会走上类似的道路。其中有多少是社会决定的，又有多少是基于心理学和其他遗传特质，我不得而知。Gregory Clark 的书《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭）探讨了欧洲家族地位的趋势，虽然有关系且有相似之处，但并不完全是一回事。我上面贴出的分类表明，你觉得工作有多专门化，很大程度上取决于那些分类是如何……
…careers), then you were likely to follow a similar path. How much of that was socially determined and how much based on psychological and other heritable traits I don't know. Gregory Clark's book, The Son Also Rises looks at family status trends in Europe, which is related but not the same though has similarities. The classifications I posted above show that how specialized you see work depends much on how the classifications…
> 富不过三代。——中国谚语 并不是这样。Gregory Clark 对此写过一本神书《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭）。在他测算过的每一个社会里，社会地位的遗传力都在 0.7 左右。这都快赶上智商遗传力估值的上限了。为了说明社会地位/角色的遗传力有多强大……
> Wealth does not pass three generations. - Chinese proverb Not true. Gregory Clark has an awesome book on this, The Son Also Rises. Social status has a heritability of 0.7ish in every society he measured it in. That's almost as high as the upper bound estimate for IQ. To give an idea of how powerful heritability of social status/roles…
……需要一些补充材料。这里有几本这类书我读得很过瘾：色诺芬的《Anabasis》（长征记）、约瑟夫·康拉德的《Heart of Darkness》（黑暗的心）、纳西姆·塔勒布的《Antifragile》（反脆弱）、马丁·塞利格曼的《Learned Optimism》（活出乐观的自己）、Gregory Clark 的《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭）
…require additional materials. Here are some titles of that kind I enjoyed. Anabasis by Xenophon Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Antifragile by Nassim Taleb Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman The Son also Rises by Gregory Clark
……前工业化时代。因此，种种迹象表明存在一种底层的“社会物理学”，而且对政府干预有着惊人的免疫力。* 上面那篇文章的合著者 Gregory Clark 写过一本很棒的书《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭），链接里的文章讲的就是关于他这项社会流动性研究的内容。在不同社会之间，它基本上是恒定不变的。
…preindustrial times. Thus there are indications of an underlying social physics surprisingly immune to government intervention.* Gregory Clark, co-author of the above article wrote an excellent book, The Son Also Rises, the topic of the linked article about his research into social mobility. It's basically invariant across societies.
……甚至跨越文化大革命这种时期，也能发现几乎完全相同的规律——我听说那段时期对继承下来的家底打击可不小。关于这一点的推荐读物（正如楼下某个老评论串里提到的）是 Clark 的《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭）( http://amzn.to/2jFnUmZ )。
…find much the same pattern even across say the cultural revolution, which I hear was rather rough on inherited nest eggs. The rec. book on this (as in one of the old comment threads below) is Clark, "The Son Also Rises" ( http://amzn.to/2jFnUmZ ).
……控制父母因素之后）在欧洲以及一些东方国家已经被证明确实如此。Gregory Clark 就此写过一本书，当时引起了广泛讨论。https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book) 核心观点在于，家族在多代（超过5代）之间传递了某种东西，这种东西对经济成功有着持久而强大的影响，而且这几乎肯定不是金钱（金钱……
…controlling for parents) has already been found to be robustly true in Europe and some eastern countries. Gregory Clark wrote a book on it that was widely discussed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book) The point is that families transmit something across multiple (> 5 generations) that's responsible for strong persistent effects on economic success, and it's almost certainly not money (which…
……职业），那你大概率也会走上类似的道路。其中有多少是社会决定的，又有多少是基于心理学和其他遗传特质，我不得而知。Gregory Clark 的书《The Son Also Rises》（子日昭昭）探讨了欧洲家族地位的趋势，虽然有关系且有相似之处，但并不完全是一回事。我上面贴出的分类表明，你觉得工作有多专门化，很大程度上取决于那些分类是如何……
…careers), then you were likely to follow a similar path. How much of that was socially determined and how much based on psychological and other heritable traits I don't know. Gregory Clark's book, The Son Also Rises looks at family status trends in Europe, which is related but not the same though has similarities. The classifications I posted above show that how specialized you see work depends much on how the classifications…