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The Son Also Rises, Surnames and the history of Social Mobility, by Gregory Clark Princeton University Press, 2014, Pages 317 Review for Business World by Shankar Jaganathan, Author & by passion an Economic Historian, April 2014 Written by economic historian Gregory Clark, The Son Also Rises is a longitudinal study of social mobility.  Studying multi-generational social mobility covering a span extending to seven hundred years across the geographies of Asia, Europe and America this book cannot be ignored by anyone …