How to Save the Underclass
Robin Marris
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Description for How to Save the Underclass
Paperback. This work employs statistical, sociological and psychological analysis, and new developments in "brain science", to show how the creation of an open society with increased equality of opportunity risks creating an unnecessarily excessive meritocracy. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JHBC; JHBL; KCA; KCFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 302.
The outstanding moral problem of our time is the emergence of an underclass, provoking both pity and an angry political backlash. Robin Marris finds that a slowdown in growth is the root cause, leading to a collapse of the labour market for unskilled men in particular. Fashionable solutions such as lower wages or welfare reform benefit those already well-off, and exacerbate growing income inequality. He employs statistical, sociological and psychological analysis and new developments in 'brain science' to show how the creation of an open society with increased equality of opportunity risks creating an unnecessarily excessive meritocracy. The solution is ... Read more
The outstanding moral problem of our time is the emergence of an underclass, provoking both pity and an angry political backlash. Robin Marris finds that a slowdown in growth is the root cause, leading to a collapse of the labour market for unskilled men in particular. Fashionable solutions such as lower wages or welfare reform benefit those already well-off, and exacerbate growing income inequality. He employs statistical, sociological and psychological analysis and new developments in 'brain science' to show how the creation of an open society with increased equality of opportunity risks creating an unnecessarily excessive meritocracy. The solution is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
229
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333669501
SKU
V9780333669501
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99-15
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Reviews for How to Save the Underclass
'This is an important question, the important question of our age. Robin Marris is often dead on target and he never lets you take the easy way out.' - Professor Robert M. Solow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'Robin Marris has produced a highly welcome serious discussion of one of the quintessential social and economic problems of the ... Read more