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Autore: | Lynn Richard <1930-> |
Titolo: | IQ and the wealth of nations / / Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen |
Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2002 |
London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
Disciplina: | 153.9/09 |
Soggetto topico: | Intellect - Social aspects |
Intellect | |
National characteristics | |
Economics - Sociological aspects | |
Altri autori: | VanhanenTatu |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- IQ AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Why Are Some Countries So Rich and Others So Poor? -- CLIMATE THEORIES -- GEOGRAPHY -- MODERNIZATION THEORIES -- PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES -- CULTURE -- DEPENDENCY AND WORLD SYSTEM THEORIES -- NEOCLASSICAL THEORIES -- MULTI-CAUSAL THEORIES -- SUMMARY -- 2 Intelligence: An Introduction to the Concept -- DEFINITION OF INTELLIGENCE -- THE HIERARCHICAL MODEL OF INTELLIGENCE -- THE IQ -- ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CORRELATES OF INTELLIGENCE -- NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN INTELLIGENCE -- THE HERITABILITY OF INTELLIGENCE -- SUMMARY -- 3 Intelligence and Earnings -- INTELLIGENCE AND EARNINGS -- TRAINABILITY -- JOB PROFICIENCY -- COGNITIVE CAPACITIES AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF INTELLIGENCE -- A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF IQ, EARNINGS, AND OCCUPATION -- THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND -- SUMMARY -- 4 Intelligence and Further Economic and Social Phenomena -- EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT -- INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS -- LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT -- GENIUS -- THE BELL CURVE -- THE UNDERCLASS -- SUMMARY -- 5 The Sociology of Intelligence, Earnings, and Social Competence -- NEW YORK CITY, 1930-32 -- LONDON, 1937 -- AMERICAN CITIES, 1939 -- AMERICAN STATES -- THE BRITISH ISLES -- FRANCE AND SPAIN -- INTELLIGENCE AND MORTALITY -- SELECTIVE MIGRATION AND POPULATION IQ DIFFERENCES -- POSITIVE FEEDBACK EFFECTS -- THE GENETIC COMPONENT IN SUB-POPULATION DIFFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- 6 Data on Variables and Methods of Analysis -- CALCULATION OF NATIONAL IQs IN 81 COUNTRIES -- RELIABILITY OF NATIONAL IQs -- VALIDITY OF NATIONAL IQs -- NATIONAL IQs AND REACTION TIMES -- NATIONAL IQs AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT -- ESTIMATION OF MISSING NATIONAL IQs -- DATA FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT -- METHODS OF ANALYSIS -- SUMMARY -- 7 National IQs and Economic Development in 81 Nations. |
CORRELATIONS OF NATIONAL IQs AND PER CAPITA INCOME -- CORRELATIONS OF NATIONAL IQs AND ECONOMIC GROWTH -- REGRESSION OF NATIONAL INCOME IN 1998 ON IQs -- SUMMARY -- 8 National IQs and Economic Development in 185 Countries -- CORRELATIONS BETWEEN NATIONAL IQs AND PER CAPITA INCOME, 1820-1998 -- CORRELATIONS BETWEEN NATIONAL IQs AND ECONOMIC GROWTH -- REGRESSION OF PER CAPITA INCOME IN 1900 ON IQs -- REGRESSION OF PER CAPITA INCOME IN 1930 ON IQs -- REGRESSION OF PER CAPITA INCOME IN 1960 ON IQs -- REGRESSION OF PER CAPITA INCOME IN 1998 ON IQs -- ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES -- Extreme Deviations -- Significantly Deviant Countries -- COUNTRIES WITH MINOR DEVIATIONS -- NON-DEVIANT COUNTRIES -- THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY -- SUMMARY -- 9 Intelligence and Markets as the Determinants of Economic Development -- INTELLIGENCE AND EARNING CAPACITY -- INTELLIGENCE OF POLITICAL LEADERS -- CLIMATE, GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RECONSIDERED -- MODERNIZATION AND CONVERGENCE THEORIES -- INDIA -- CHINA -- JAPAN -- SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA -- SUMMARY -- 10 The Future of the Wealth of Nations -- NUTRITION -- MALNUTRITION IN UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS -- HEALTH -- EDUCATION -- DYSGENIC FERTILITY -- PERSISTENCE OF NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN MEAN IQs -- GENETIC BASIS OF NATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN INTELLIGENCE -- CONCLUSIONS: HOW SHOULD WE LIVE WITH PERSISTENT INEQUALITIES? -- Appendix 1 The Calculation of National Intelligence Levels -- Argentina -- Australia -- Austria -- Barbados -- Belgium -- Brazil -- Bulgaria -- Canada -- China -- Colombia -- Congo (Brazzaville) -- Congo (Zaire) -- Croatia -- Cuba -- Czech Republic -- Denmark -- Ecuador -- Egypt -- Equatorial Guinea -- Ethiopia -- Fiji -- Finland -- France -- Germany -- Ghana -- Greece -- Guatemala -- Guinea -- Hong Kong -- Hungary -- India -- Indonesia -- Iran -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Israel -- Italy. | |
Jamaica -- Japan -- Kenya -- Lebanon -- Malaysia -- Marshall Islands -- Mexico -- Morocco -- Nepal -- The Netherlands -- New Zealand -- Nigeria -- Norway -- Peru -- Philippines -- Poland -- Portugal -- Puerto Rico -- Qatar -- Romania -- Russia -- Sierra Leone -- Singapore -- Slovakia -- Slovenia -- South Africa -- South Korea -- Spain -- Sudan -- Suriname -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- Taiwan -- Tanzania -- Thailand -- Tonga -- Turkey -- Uganda -- United States -- Uruguay -- Western Samoa -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe -- Appendix 2 Data on Per Capita Income and Economic Growth in 185 Countries -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | IQ and the wealth of nations |
ISBN: | 979-84-00-67240-8 |
1-280-42270-X | |
9786610422708 | |
0-313-01089-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809206303321 |
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