Meritocracy and Economic Inequality /

Meritocracy and Economic Inequality / / ed. by Kenneth Arrow, Steven N. Durlauf, Samuel Bowles.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Arrow, Kenneth,
Ashenfelter, Orley,
Bowles, Samuel,
Bénabou, Roland,
Carter, Wendy Y.,
Christiansen, Freddy B.,
Cowley, John,
Durlauf, Steven,
Feldman, Marcus W.,
Flynn, James R.,
Gintis, Herbert,
Hauser, Robert M.,
Heckman, James,
Huang, Min-Hsiung,
Korenman, Sanders,
Lochner, Lance,
Loury, Glenn,
Lundberg, Shelly J.,
Otto, Sarah P.,
Roemer, John E.,
Rouse, Cecilia,
Sen, Amartya,
Startz, Richard,
Vytlacil, Edward,
Warren, John Robert,
Winship, Christopher,
HerausgeberIn:
Arrow, Kenneth,
Bowles, Samuel,
Durlauf, Steven N.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2000
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: MERIT, REWARD, AND OPPORTUNITY
  • One. Merit and Justice
  • Two. Equality of Opportunity
  • PART TWO: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF "INTELLIGENCE"
  • Three. IQ Trends over Time: Intelligence, Race, and Meritocracy
  • Four. Genes, Culture, and Inequality
  • PART THREE: SCHOOLING AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
  • Five. Schooling, Intelligence, and Income in America
  • Six. Does Schooling Raise Earnings by Making People Smarter?
  • Seven. A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve: Intelligence, Family Background, and Schooling
  • Eight. Occupational Status, Education, and Social Mobility in the Meritocracy
  • Nine. Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education
  • PART FOUR: POLICY OPTIONS
  • Ten. Inequality and Race: Models and Policy
  • Eleven. Conceptual Problems in the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws
  • Twelve. Meritocracy, Redistribution, and the Size of the Pie
  • Index

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