Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage by Gandy, Oscar H.

Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754679615)

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Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage by Gandy, Oscar H.

Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage

$225.00
Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage by Gandy, Oscar H.

Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage

$225.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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.

Author: Oscar H. Gandy
ISBN-10: 0754679616
ISBN-13: 9780754679615
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2009
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 133
By Oscar H. Gandy
By Oscar H. Gandy
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Oscar H. Gandy, Jr, is Professor Emeritus of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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