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Bhash Mazumder of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reviews, 'Heredity, Family, and Inequality: A Critique of Social Sciences' by Michael Beenstock. The EconLit Abstract of this book begins: 'Explores the roles of heredity, family, and social environment in the determination of outcomes among humans, including anthropometric, psychological, behavioral, and economic outcomes. Discusses the apple and the tree-Francis Galton revisited; correlation within the family; explaining the intergenerational and sibling correlations; inequality, diversity, and family; empirical methodology; empirical knowledge on the causes of correlations within the family; where we go from here; statistics; parenting theory and child behavior; and empirical methodology. Beenstock is Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bibliography; index.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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