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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bowles, Samuel
• Gintis, Herbert
• Groves, Melissa Osborne
• Herbert Gintis
• Melissa Osborne Groves
• Samuel Bowles

Titel

Unequal chances: Family background and economic success

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Princeton, NJ u.a: Princeton Univ. Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.