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Beauty pays : why attractive people are more successful / Daniel S. Hamermesh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, NJ ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2011.Description: xii, 216 p. : portraits ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780691140469 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 650.1 HAM  22
LOC classification:
  • HF5386 .H243 2011
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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