The Resource Beauty pays : why attractive people are more successful, Daniel S. Hamermesh
Beauty pays : why attractive people are more successful, Daniel S. Hamermesh
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The item Beauty pays : why attractive people are more successful, Daniel S. Hamermesh represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much better off are the better looking? Based on the evidence, quite a lot. The first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Beauty Pays demonstrates how society favors the beautiful and how better-looking people experience startling but undeniable benefits in all aspects of life. Noted economist Daniel Hamermesh shows that the attractive are more likely to be employed, work more productively a
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages)
- Contents
-
- Background to beauty
- The economics of beauty
- In the eye of the beholder
- Beauty on the job : what and why
- Beauty and the worker
- Beauty in specific occupations
- Beauty and the employer
- Lookism or productive beauty, and why?
- Beauty in love, loans, and law
- Beauty in markets for friends, family, and funds
- Legal protection for the ugly
- The future of looks
- Prospects for the looks-challenged
- Isbn
- 9781400839445
- Label
- Beauty pays : why attractive people are more successful
- Title
- Beauty pays
- Title remainder
- why attractive people are more successful
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel S. Hamermesh
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much better off are the better looking? Based on the evidence, quite a lot. The first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Beauty Pays demonstrates how society favors the beautiful and how better-looking people experience startling but undeniable benefits in all aspects of life. Noted economist Daniel Hamermesh shows that the attractive are more likely to be employed, work more productively a
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hamermesh, Daniel S
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Success in business
- Success
- Beauty, Personal
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Beauty, Personal
- Success
- Success in business
- Label
- Beauty pays : why attractive people are more successful, Daniel S. Hamermesh
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Background to beauty -- The economics of beauty -- In the eye of the beholder -- Beauty on the job : what and why -- Beauty and the worker -- Beauty in specific occupations -- Beauty and the employer -- Lookism or productive beauty, and why? -- Beauty in love, loans, and law -- Beauty in markets for friends, family, and funds -- Legal protection for the ugly -- The future of looks -- Prospects for the looks-challenged
- Control code
- ocn744615931
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400839445
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9786613163783
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 316378
- 22573/cttx9xt
- 36889438-93a8-4a77-a3db-1b49a759d753
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)744615931
- Label
- Beauty pays : why attractive people are more successful, Daniel S. Hamermesh
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Background to beauty -- The economics of beauty -- In the eye of the beholder -- Beauty on the job : what and why -- Beauty and the worker -- Beauty in specific occupations -- Beauty and the employer -- Lookism or productive beauty, and why? -- Beauty in love, loans, and law -- Beauty in markets for friends, family, and funds -- Legal protection for the ugly -- The future of looks -- Prospects for the looks-challenged
- Control code
- ocn744615931
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400839445
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9786613163783
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 316378
- 22573/cttx9xt
- 36889438-93a8-4a77-a3db-1b49a759d753
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)744615931
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