Unequal Chances :: Family Background and Economic Success.

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 un...

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1. Verfasser: Bowles, Samuel
Weitere Verfasser: Gintis, Herbert, Osborne Groves, Melissa
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (315 pages)
ISBN:9781400835492
1400835496
0691119309
9780691119304
0691136203
9780691136202

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