Meritocracy and Economic Inequality
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1st ed.
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0195656350
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xv+348p.
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There has been some recent academic attention focussed on cultural and genetic explanations of persistent poverty, including claims that economic inequality is a function of intellectual ability. This volume of original essays by luminaries in the economic, social and biological sciences, however, confirms mounting evidence that the connection between intelligence and inequality is surprisingly weak and demonstrates that targeted educational and economic reforms ...