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Investigating the “Carnegie effect”
Author(s) -
B⊘ Erlend E.,
Halvorsen Elin,
Thoresen Thor O.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/1740-9713.01393
Subject(s) - environmental ethics , economic history , political science , history , philosophy
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie claimed that parents who bequeath vast fortunes to their children deaden the “talents and energies” of their offspring. But do inheritances really have such effects, and can those effects be quantified? Erlend E. B⊘, Elin Halvorsen and Thor O. Thoresen investigate