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Meritocracy and economic inequality / Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steven Durlauf, editors.

Contributor(s): Arrow, Kenneth J. (Kenneth Joseph), 1921-2017 | Bowles, Samuel | Durlauf, Steven N
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691004684 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780691004686 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Income distribution | Equality | Elite (Social sciences) | Social mobilityDDC classification: 305.5/13 LOC classification: HB523 | .M468 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steven Durlauf -- 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 Bénabou.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West HB523 .M468 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903185177

A collection of 12 original papers contributed by scholars, with an introduction by the editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steven Durlauf -- 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 Bénabou.

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