Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success

by Herbert Gintis, Melissa Osborne Groves, Samuel Bowles

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691136203
• ISBN13: 9780691136202
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"