Abstract
Policies aimed at redistributing wealth in England in the 1920s were constrained by the tendency for members of a class to intermarry and the tendency for poorer classes to have larger families. Thus the relative economic status of each group was perpetuated. In spite of the fact that differences in social class no longer corresponded to differences of economic position and the marriages of the relatively rich with the relatively poor might have caused the inheritances of the children to be more evenly distributed than in the previous generation the custom of primogeniture the effects of fresh accumulations and other variable would have more than counterbalanced the equalizing tendency.
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