Coming to terms with chance : engaging rational discrimination and cumulative disadvantage /: engaging rational discrimination and cumulative disadvantage. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
• Other Names: Gandy, Oscar H
• Contents: Introduction -- Luck, risk, and life chances -- The natural lottery and our genetic endowments -- Rational discrimination -- Markets that matter -- Financial risk and insurance -- The criminal justice system -- Public policy formation and evaluation -- The media's role -- "Quixotics unite!" : a call to arms.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 305.5/12; Discrimination; Social stratification; Statistics -- Social aspects; Chance -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317164074; 1317164075
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.