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Meritocracy and Economic Inequality /
Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy. This helps to explain the recent attention paid to cultural and genetic explanations of persistent poverty, including claims that economic inequality is a fun...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Merit and justice / Amartya Sen
- Equality of opportunity / John E. Roemer
- IQ trends over time : intelligence, race, and meritocracy / James R. Flynn
- Genes, culture, and inequality / Marcus W. Feldman, Sarah P. Otto, and Freddy B. Christiansen
- Schooling, intelligence, and income in America / Orley Ashenfelter and Cecilia Rouse
- Does schooling raise earnings by making people smarter? / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
- A reanalysis of The Bell curve : intelligence, family background, and schooling / Sanders Korenman and Christopher Winship
- Occupational status, education, and social mobility in the meritocracy / Robert M. Hauser, John Robert Warren, Min-Hsiung Huang, and Wendy Y. Carter
- Understanding the role of cognitive ability in accounting for the recent rise in the economic return to education / John Cawley, James Heckman, Lance Lochner, and Edward Vytlacil
- Inequality and race : models and policy / Shelly J. Lundberg and Richard Startz
- Conceptual problems in the enforcement of anti-discrimination laws / Glenn Loury
- Meritocracy, redistribution, and the size of the pie / Roland Benabou.