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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b9904157.
- catalog contributor b9904158.
- catalog contributor b9904159.
- catalog contributor b9904160.
- catalog contributor b9904161.
- catalog contributor b9904162.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "And recent policies have, on the whole, widened the gap between the rich and the rest of Americans since the 1970s.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 318 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691028982 (pb : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691028990 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, NJ : Princton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.9/082 20".
- catalog subject "BF431 .I513 1996".
- catalog subject "Educational psychology.".
- catalog subject "Herrnstein, Richard J. Bell curve.".
- catalog subject "Intellect.".
- catalog subject "Intelligence levels Social aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Intelligence levels United States.".
- catalog subject "Nature and nurture.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Inequality by design : cracking the bell curve myth / Claude S. Fischer ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "text".