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of wealth was highly unequal. That material inheritance played a major role in wealth differences and in the transmission of wealth status from generation to generation. There was also reason to believe that wealth inequality was shrinking over time, and the distribution's shape exhibited statistical regularities that could not have arisen by chance. Thus, early theoretical work on the distribution of wealth sought to explain statistical regularities and to comprehend the relationships among basic forces that could explain the high concentration

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