Oscar H Gandy

Coming to Terms with Chance

Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage. Oscar H. Gandy, JR

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Produktbeschreibung

The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy. As a critical technology assessment, the ways in which bad luck early in life increase the probability that hardship and loss will accumulate across the life course are illustrated. Analysis shows the ways in which individual decisions, informed by statistical models, shape the opportunities people face in both market and non-market environments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138260474
• ISBN-10: 1138260479
• Artikelnr.: 48734069

Autorenporträt

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr, is Professor Emeritus of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Luck, Risk, and Life Chances
Chapter 3 The Natural Lottery and our Genetic Endowments
Chapter 4 Rational Discrimination
Chapter 5 Markets that Matter
Chapter 6 Financial Risk and Insurance
Chapter 7 The Criminal Justice System
Chapter 8 Public Policy Formation and Evaluation
Chapter 9 The Media's Role
Chapter 10 "Quixotics Unite" A Call to Arms