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Patience Capital and the Demise of the Aristocracy
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Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for International Economic Studies.
2005 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

We model the decision problem of a parent who chooses an occupation and invests in the patience of her children. The two choices complement each other: patient individuals choose occupations with a steep income profile; a steep income profile, in turn, leads to a strong incentive to invest in patience. In equilibrium, society becomes stratified along occupational lines. The most patient people are those in occupations requiring the most education and experience. The theory can account for the demise of the British land-owning aristocracy in the nineteenth century, when rich landowners proved unable to profit from new opportunities arising with industrialization, and were thus surpassed by industrialists rising from the middle classes.

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Stockholm: IIES , 2005. , p. 71
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Seminar Paper / Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. (Online), ISSN 1653-610X ; 735
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42214OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-42214DiVA, id: diva2:344395
Available from: 2010-08-19 Created: 2010-08-19 Last updated: 2010-08-19Bibliographically approved

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