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Inequality by design : cracking the bell curve myth, Claude S. Fischer ... [et al.]

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  • As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. They refute the claims of the incendiary bestseller The Bell Curve (1994) through a clear, rigorous re-analysis of the very data its authors, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, used to contend that inherited differences in intelligence explain inequality. Inequality by Design offers a powerful alternative explanation, stressing that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society. More critical yet, patterns of inequality must be explained by looking beyond the attributes of individuals to the structure of society. Social policies set the "rules of the game" within which individual abilities and efforts matter
  • And recent policies have, on the whole, widened the gap between the rich and the rest of Americans since the 1970s
  • Not only does the wealth of individuals' parents shape their chances for a good life, so do national policies ranging from labor laws to investments in education to tax deductions. The authors explore the ways that America - the most economically unequal society in the industrialized world - unevenly distributes rewards through regulation of the market, taxes, and government spending. It attacks the myth that inequality fosters economic growth, that reducing economic inequality requires enormous welfare expenditures, and that there is little we can do to alter the extent of inequality. It also attacks the injurious myth of innate racial inequality, presenting powerful evidence that racial differences in achievement are the consequences, not the causes, of social inequality
  • By refusing to blame inequality on an unchangeable human nature and an inexorable market - an excuse that leads to resignation and passivity - Inequality by Design shows how we can advance policies that widen opportunity for all
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eng
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1 online resource (xii, 318 pages
Contents
  • Why inequality?
  • Understanding "intelligence"
  • But is it intelligence?
  • Who wins? Who loses?
  • The rewards of the game: systems of inequality
  • How unequal? America's invisible policy choices
  • Enriching intelligence: more policy choices
  • Race, ethnicity, and intelligence
  • Confronting inequality in America: the power of public investment
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Inequality by design : cracking the bell curve myth
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Inequality by design
Title remainder
cracking the bell curve myth
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Claude S. Fischer ... [et al.]
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Language
eng
Summary
  • As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. They refute the claims of the incendiary bestseller The Bell Curve (1994) through a clear, rigorous re-analysis of the very data its authors, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, used to contend that inherited differences in intelligence explain inequality. Inequality by Design offers a powerful alternative explanation, stressing that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society. More critical yet, patterns of inequality must be explained by looking beyond the attributes of individuals to the structure of society. Social policies set the "rules of the game" within which individual abilities and efforts matter
  • And recent policies have, on the whole, widened the gap between the rich and the rest of Americans since the 1970s
  • Not only does the wealth of individuals' parents shape their chances for a good life, so do national policies ranging from labor laws to investments in education to tax deductions. The authors explore the ways that America - the most economically unequal society in the industrialized world - unevenly distributes rewards through regulation of the market, taxes, and government spending. It attacks the myth that inequality fosters economic growth, that reducing economic inequality requires enormous welfare expenditures, and that there is little we can do to alter the extent of inequality. It also attacks the injurious myth of innate racial inequality, presenting powerful evidence that racial differences in achievement are the consequences, not the causes, of social inequality
  • By refusing to blame inequality on an unchangeable human nature and an inexorable market - an excuse that leads to resignation and passivity - Inequality by Design shows how we can advance policies that widen opportunity for all
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DLC
Dewey number
305.9082
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
BF431
LC item number
.I513 1996
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1948-
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Fischer, Claude S.
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  • Intellect
  • Nature and nurture
  • Intelligence levels
  • Intelligence levels
  • Educational psychology
  • Herrnstein, Richard J
  • Herrnstein, Richard J.
  • Herrnstein, Richard J
  • Hérédité et milieu
  • Niveau intellectuel
  • Niveau intellectuel
  • Psychopédagogie
  • Intelligence
  • Intelligentie
  • Erfelijkheid en omgeving
  • Rassenongelijkheid
  • Onderwijs
  • Intelligenz
  • Ungleichheit
  • USA
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Inequality by design : cracking the bell curve myth, Claude S. Fischer ... [et al.]
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) and index
Contents
Why inequality? -- Understanding "intelligence" -- But is it intelligence? -- Who wins? Who loses? -- The rewards of the game: systems of inequality -- How unequal? America's invisible policy choices -- Enriching intelligence: more policy choices -- Race, ethnicity, and intelligence -- Confronting inequality in America: the power of public investment
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035665183
Label
Inequality by design : cracking the bell curve myth, Claude S. Fischer ... [et al.]
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) and index
Contents
Why inequality? -- Understanding "intelligence" -- But is it intelligence? -- Who wins? Who loses? -- The rewards of the game: systems of inequality -- How unequal? America's invisible policy choices -- Enriching intelligence: more policy choices -- Race, ethnicity, and intelligence -- Confronting inequality in America: the power of public investment
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035665183

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