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Robert H. Frank

Success and Luck

Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

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How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that chance plays a much larger role in important life outcomes than most people imagine. In Success and Luck, bestselling author and New York Times economics columnist Robert Frank explores the surprising implications of those findings to show why the rich underestimate th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-16740-4
  • EAN: 9780691167404
  • Produktnummer: 18882643
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Masse: H15.1 cm x B22.3 cm x D2.1 cm 398 g
  • Gewicht: 398
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


Robert H. Frank is the H. J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson School of Management. He has been an Economic View columnist for the New York Times for more than a decade and his books include The Winner-Take-All Society (with Philip J. Cook), The Economic Naturalist, The Darwin Economy (Princeton), and Principles of Economics (with Ben S. Bernanke). He lives in Ithaca, New York.

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