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ow Society Should Deal with Inequality offers a blueprint for addressing society's urgent need to balance functionality with fairness in the distribution of income and wealth. The book moves beyond social scientists' negative fixation on power and dysfunction. It embraces a positive sociology perspective focused on the optimal arrangements that allow societies to survive and thrive. The book lays out a plan for a dual-track, hybrid approach weighing the tradeoffs inherent in any system's management of unequal outcomes. The first priority is the ability model, which ensures that highly qualified people are placed in the roles essential for fulfilling society's core functions. The second is the perceived equity of the process as judged by society's members -- without which social systems can devolve into chaos or even revolution. How Society Should Deal with Inequality rests on the assumption that justice and equity are best measured by the views of the people themselves-not by today's common and flawed practices of assessing justice and equity through statistical proportionality or rigid ideology. How Society Should Deal with Inequality is written to be highly accessible to readers. The book offers a new, practical way to think about inequality, one that balances functionality, fairness, and the lived perspectives of the American people.

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