Social mobility no easier in England’s modern meritocracy than in medieval oligarchy The rate of social mobility in England over the past century and a half was substantially slower than most social scientists believe – and possibly slower than in the Middle Ages. That is the conclusion of a major research project by Gregory Clark, professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, who
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