00986nam a2200157   450000500170000000800410001702000180005803700120007604000130008808400170010110000260011824500580014426000500020230000630025252005130031520260421110158.0260409b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780691158174  cTextual  aRTLcRTL  qRTLaX:74 Q1  aHamermesh, Daniel S.   aBeauty pays: Why attractive people are more sucessful  aNew JerseybPrinceton University Press c2011  axii, 216 p. bIncludes bibliographical reference and index  aMost 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.