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"What went wrong in Europe was that... there was a large number of women who had no-one to look after them". This was linked to the church getting rich from people without heirs.   "England had primogeniture (inheritance down oldest male line only), younger family members had to make do for themselves."   1601 Elizabethan Poor Law Act (replaced in time with the criminalization of poverty).   In Scandinavia (especially Sweden), Lutheranism is as relevant as Socialist theory. Systematic records, including about famines, harvests and population data, supported future planning and risk assessments.