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Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
Samuel Bowles (Ed.)
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Description for Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
Paperback. Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? This title provides answers to these questions by leading economists, sociologists, biologists, behavioral geneticists, and philosophers. Editor(s): Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert; Osborne-Groves, Melissa. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 line illus. 64 tables. BIC Classification: JFSC; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 28.
Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal Chances provides new answers to these questions by leading economists, sociologists, biologists, behavioral geneticists, and philosophers. New estimates show that intergenerational inequality in the United States is far greater than was previously thought. Moreover, while the inheritance of wealth and the better schooling ... Read more
Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal Chances provides new answers to these questions by leading economists, sociologists, biologists, behavioral geneticists, and philosophers. New estimates show that intergenerational inequality in the United States is far greater than was previously thought. Moreover, while the inheritance of wealth and the better schooling ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691136202
SKU
V9780691136202
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99-1
About Samuel Bowles (Ed.)
Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, and professor of Economics at the University of Siena. He is the author of "Microeconomics" (Princeton); the coauthor, with Herbert Gintis, of "Democracy and Capitalism"; and the coeditor, with Kenneth Arrow and Steven Durlauf, of "Meritocracy and Inequality" (Princeton). Herbert Gintis is an ... Read more
Reviews for Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
"An impressive book... [T]he book includes a heavy dose of philosophy about social justice and what part the family plays in creating, sustaining, or advancing economic advantage, to the loss and gain of other families."
Larry Nackerud, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
Larry Nackerud, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare