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Coming to terms with chance : engaging rational discrimination and cumulative disadvantage /
The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy. As a critical technology assessment, the ways in which bad luck early in life increase th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Luck, risk, and life chances
- The natural lottery and our genetic endowments
- Rational discrimination
- Markets that matter
- Financial risk and insurance
- The criminal justice system
- Public policy formation and evaluation
- The media's role
- "Quixotics unite!" : a call to arms.