how was wealth distributed after the wars
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Answer:In his examination of the distribution of wealth in the United States in the mid-twentieth century (The Share of Top Wealthholders in National Wealth, 1922-1956 [1962]), Robert J. Lampman called attention to the dearth of such studies for earlier periods in American history. Historians and other social scientists have in recent years taken steps to fill in the gaps Lampman noted, reporting on wealth distribution in large communities and small, urban and rural, for the period from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. It is not to detract from the usefulness of these researches to point out that they typically are confined to single, not necessarily repre sentative communities; their explanations of the patterns they disclose are the product of sensible surmise rather than regression analysis; and in sum they have lighted up only a small corner of the darkness. Lee Soltow's Men and Wealth in the United States is unusual in two respects. Its conclusions about the two decades it examines are based on comprehen sive evidence on wealth distribution in the United States as a whole rather than in a single community or a single kind of community. And in addition to disclosing how many owned how much-the preoccupation of most previous studies-Soltow uses statistical methods to determine the correlations between such independent variables as age, nation of birth, race, geographical location, and occupation (by which he means whether or not one was a farmer) and the dependent variable, property ownership.
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