Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, by Robert H. Frank

An economist explains to the rich that they didn’t build that, Danny Dorling writes

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Print headline: On a wealth of self-delusion

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#1 Submitted by Gareth on July 28, 2016 - 9:58pm
Of course luck comes into any successful career but it is invalid to downgrade ability and effort as this review seems to do. I wonder how many leading surgeons, or economics leading lights, got there even largely by luck. Hedge fund managers may be another matter.

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