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Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success Bowles, Samuel; Gintis,
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Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert and Osborne Groves, Melissa Hardcover - 2005

by Osborne Groves, Melissa [Editor]; Bowles, Samuel [Editor]; Gintis, Herbert [Editor];

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Princeton University Press, 2005-01-30. Hardcover. Like New. Hardcover with jacket. New book showing minor shelfwear. Never read, pages are unmarked.
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  • Title Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert and Osborne Groves, Melissa
  • Author Osborne Groves, Melissa [Editor]; Bowles, Samuel [Editor]; Gintis, Herbert [Editor];
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint.
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-01-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 11-0309-39-1204
  • ISBN 9780691119304 / 0691119309
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6 x 0.99 in (23.50 x 15.24 x 2.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Family - Economic aspects, Social status - Psychological aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004050521
  • Dewey Decimal Code 339.22

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DECADES of social science research have documented correlations between the social, educational, behavioral, and economic outcomes of parents and children.

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About the author

Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, and professor of Economics at the University of Siena. He is the author of Microeconomics (Princeton); the coauthor, with Herbert Gintis, of Democracy and Capitalism; and the coeditor, with Kenneth Arrow and Steven Durlauf, of Meritocracy and Inequality (Princeton). Herbert Gintis is an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Game Theory Evolving (Princeton). Melissa Osborne Groves is associate professor of economics at Towson University.

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