Coming to Terms with Chance: Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage. Oscar H. Gandy, JR (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138260474)

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: 1138260479
ISBN-13: 9781138260474
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2016
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d