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Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

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  1. Björn Bartling & Alexander W. Cappelen & Ingvild L. Skarpeid & Erik Ø. Sørensen & Bertil Tungodden, 2025. "The talent paradox: why is it fair to reward talent but not luck?," ECON - Working Papers 464, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.
  2. Florian Scheuer & Joel Slemrod, 2020. "Taxation and the Superrich," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 12(1), pages 189-211, August.
  3. George Lifchits & Ashton Anderson & Daniel G. Goldstein & Jake M. Hofman & Duncan J. Watts, 2021. "Success stories cause false beliefs about success," Judgment and Decision Making, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 16(6), pages 1439-1463, November.
  4. Fanny Landaud & Éric Maurin & Barton Willage & Alexander L.P. Willén, 2022. "Getting Lucky: The Long-Term Consequences of Exam Luck," CESifo Working Paper Series 9570, CESifo.
  5. Didier Sornette & Spencer Wheatley & Peter Cauwels, 2019. "The fair reward problem: the illusion of success and how to solve it," Papers 1902.04940, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2019.
  6. Alessandro Pluchino & Alessio Emanuele Biondo & Andrea Rapisarda, 2018. "Talent Versus Luck: The Role Of Randomness In Success And Failure," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 21(03n04), pages 1-31, May.
  7. Bruno S. Frey & Margit Osterloh, 2016. "Aleatoric Democracy," CESifo Working Paper Series 6229, CESifo.
  8. Praag, Mirjam van & Zunino, Diego & Dushnitsky, Gary, 2017. "Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors’ Judgment of Entrepreneurs’ Past Failure," CEPR Discussion Papers 12329, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  9. Drugov, Mikhail & Ryvkin, Dmitry, 2020. "Tournament rewards and heavy tails," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 190(C).
  10. Elias L Khalil, 2024. "Refined tastes, coarse tastes: Solving the stratification-of-goods enigma," Rationality and Society, , vol. 36(3), pages 373-400, August.
  11. Fanny Landaud & Éric Maurin & Barton Willage & Alexander Willén, 2024. "The Value of a High School GPA," Post-Print halshs-04409423, HAL.
  12. Andreas Siemoneit, 2023. "Merit first, need and equality second: hierarchies of justice," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 70(4), pages 537-567, December.
  13. J Cok Vrooman & Jeroen Boelhouwer & Mérove Gijsberts, 2024. "A contemporary class structure: Capital disparities in The Netherlands," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(1), pages 1-42, January.
  14. Emmanuel K. Yiridoe, 2021. "Fostering a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the Canadian agricultural economics profession," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 69(1), pages 5-15, March.
  15. Diego Zunino & Mirjam (C.M.) van Praag & Gary Dushnitsky, 2017. "Badge of Honor or Scarlet Letter? Unpacking Investors' Judgment of Entrepreneurs' Past Failure," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 17-085/VII, Tinbergen Institute.
  16. Mikhail Drugov & Dmitry Ryvkin, 2019. "The shape of luck and competition in tournaments," Working Papers w0251, Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR).
  17. Alberto Alesina & Stefanie Stantcheva & Edoardo Teso, 2018. "Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 108(2), pages 521-554, February.
  18. Arnaud Lefranc & Alain Trannoy, 2017. "Equality of opportunity, moral hazard and the timing of luck," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 49(3), pages 469-497, December.
  19. Sunyee Yoon & Hyeongmin Christian Kim & Vicki MorwitzEditor & Simona BottiAssociate Editor, 2018. "Feeling Economically Stuck: The Effect of Perceived Economic Mobility and Socioeconomic Status on Variety Seeking," Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Research Inc., vol. 44(5), pages 1141-1156.
  20. Hansson, Kajsa & Persson, Emil & Davidai, Shai & Tinghög, Gustav, 2021. "Losing sense of fairness: How information about a level playing field reduces selfish behavior," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 190(C), pages 66-75.
  21. Preuss, Marcel & Reyes, Germán & Somerville, Jason & Wu, Joy, 2022. "Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution," VfS Annual Conference 2022 (Basel): Big Data in Economics 264138, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  22. Hernán Bejarano & Joris Gillet & Ismael Rodriguez‐Lara, 2018. "Do Negative Random Shocks Affect Trust and Trustworthiness?," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 85(2), pages 563-579, October.
  23. Bejarano, Hernán & Gillet, Joris & Rodriguez-Lara, Ismael, 2021. "Trust and trustworthiness after negative random shocks," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
  24. Guenther, Isabel & Tetteh-Baah, Samuel Kofi, 2019. "The impact of discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity: experimental evidence from the United States," VfS Annual Conference 2019 (Leipzig): 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Democracy and Market Economy 203652, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  25. Paolo Santori, 2023. "Careocracy or isocracy? A feminist alternative to the neoliberal meritocratic discourse," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-9, December.
  26. Fehr, Dietmar & Vollmann, Martin, 2020. "Misperceiving Economic Success: Experimental Evidence on Meritocratic Beliefs and Inequality Acceptance," Working Papers 0695, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics.
  27. John Ifcher & Homa Zarghamee & Dan Houser & Lina Diaz, 2020. "The relative income effect: an experiment," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 23(4), pages 1205-1234, December.
  28. Sobkowicz, Pawel & Frank, Robert H. & Biondo, Alessio E. & Pluchino, Alessandro & Rapisarda, Andrea, 2020. "Inequalities, chance and success in sport competitions: Simulations vs empirical data," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 557(C).
  29. Carlos Alos Ferrer & Michele Garagnani, 2025. "Who Likes It More?," Working Papers 424225030, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department.
  30. Bruno S. Frey und Margit Osterloh, 2016. "Aleatorische Demokratie," CREMA Working Paper Series 2016-09, Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA).
  31. John Komlos, 2022. "Running the U.S. Economy at Full Throttle Is a Stressful Variant of Capitalism," CESifo Working Paper Series 9966, CESifo.
  32. Andrea Bonaccorsi & Tindaro Cicero & Peter Haddawy & Saeed-UL Hassan, 2017. "Explaining the transatlantic gap in research excellence," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 110(1), pages 217-241, January.
  33. Peter Andre, 2021. "Shallow Meritocracy: An Experiment on Fairness Views," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2021_318v1, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
  34. Malik Fercovic, 2022. "Disentangling Meritocracy Among the Long-Range Upwardly Mobile: The Chilean Case," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 27(1), pages 118-135, March.
  35. Hendrik P. van Dalen, 2019. "Values of Economists Matter in the Art and Science of Economics," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 72(3), pages 472-499, August.
  36. Martín Leites & Gonzalo Salas, 2019. "Intergenerational transmission of preferences for redistribution," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 19-20, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
  37. Morgan, John & Tumlinson, Justin & Várdy, Felix, 2022. "The limits of meritocracy," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 201(C).
  38. Moeller, Marc & Drugov, Mikhail & Meyer, Margaret, 2024. "Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luck," VfS Annual Conference 2024 (Berlin): Upcoming Labor Market Challenges 302345, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  39. , Aisdl, 2020. "Becoming Attuned," OSF Preprints j7f8y, Center for Open Science.
  40. Zappalà, Chiara & Biondo, Alessio Emanuele & Pluchino, Alessandro & Rapisarda, Andrea, 2023. "The paradox of talent: How chance affects success in tennis tournaments," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
  41. Luigino Bruni, 2021. "Critique of Managerial Reason," Humanistic Management Journal, Springer, vol. 6(1), pages 5-18, April.
  42. Spencer Bastani & Sebastian Koehne, 2024. "How Should Consumption Be Taxed?," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 80(3), pages 259-302.
  43. Alessandro Pluchino & Alessio. E. Biondo & Andrea Rapisarda, 2018. "Exploring the role of talent and luck in getting success," Papers 1811.05206, arXiv.org.
  44. Elias Bouacida & Renaud Foucart, 2020. "The acceptability of lotteries in allocation problems," Working Papers 301646245, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department.
  45. Bruni Luigino, 2018. "Capitalism and Its New–Old Religion: a Civil Economy Perspective," Journal for Markets and Ethics, Sciendo, vol. 6(1), pages 121-131, June.
  46. Vrooman, J. Cok & Boelhouwer, Jeroen & Gijsberts, Mérove, 2023. "A contemporary class structure: Capital disparities in the Netherlands," SocArXiv zunqs, Center for Open Science.
  47. Ashman, Rachel & Patterson, Anthony & Brown, Stephen, 2018. "‘Don't forget to like, share and subscribe’: Digital autopreneurs in a neoliberal world," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 92(C), pages 474-483.
  48. Gabriele Mandolesi, 2021. "The economic thought of Federico Caffè and Paolo Sylos Labini on privileges and merit: a common ground with civil economy," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 68(2), pages 263-277, June.
  49. Richters, Oliver & Siemoneit, Andreas, 2017. "Fear of stagnation? A review on growth imperatives," VÖÖ Discussion Papers 6/2017, Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie e.V. (VÖÖ).
  50. Peter Andre, 2025. "Shallow Meritocracy," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 92(2), pages 772-807.
  51. Hernán Bejarano & Joris Gillet & Ismael Rodriguez-Lara, 2021. "When the Rich Do (Not) Trust the (Newly) Rich: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Positive Random Shocks in the Trust Game," Working Papers 96, Red Nacional de Investigadores en Economía (RedNIE).
  52. , Aisdl, 2020. "The Serendipity Mindset," OSF Preprints w52y9, Center for Open Science.
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  55. Andrea Fazio, 2021. "Beautiful inequality: Are beautiful people more willing to redistribute?," Working Papers in Public Economics 194, Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Roma.
  56. Granaglia, Elena, 2019. "Can market inequalities be justified? The intrinsic shortcomings of meritocracy," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 284-290.
  57. Osterloh, Margit & Frey, Bruno S., 2019. "Dealing With Randomness," management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 30(4), pages 331-345.
  58. Christopher Michaelson, 2021. "A Normative Meaning of Meaningful Work," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 170(3), pages 413-428, May.
  59. Richters, Oliver & Siemoneit, Andreas, 2019. "Growth imperatives: Substantiating a contested concept," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 126-137.
  60. Luigino Bruni & Paolo Santori, 2022. "The Illusion of Merit and the Demons of Economic Meritocracy: Which are the Legitimate Expectations of the Market?," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 176(3), pages 415-427, March.
  61. Cappelen, Alexander W. & de Haan, Thomas & Tungodden, Bertil, 2024. "Fairness and limited information: Are people Bayesian meritocrats?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
  62. Rajiv Sethi & Rohini Somanathan, 2023. "Meritocracy and Representation," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 61(3), pages 941-957, September.
  63. Chiara Zappalà & Alessandro Pluchino & Andrea Rapisarda & Alessio Emanuele Biondo & Pawel Sobkowicz, 2022. "On the role of chance in fencing tournaments: An agent-based approach," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(5), pages 1-17, May.
  64. Elias Bouacida & Renaud Foucart, 2022. "Rituals of Reason," Working Papers 344119591, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department.
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  66. Ryvkin, Dmitry & Drugov, Mikhail, 2020. "The shape of luck and competition in winner-take-all tournaments," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 15(4), November.
  67. Jan Vandemoortele, 2021. "The open‐and‐shut case against inequality," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 39(1), pages 135-151, January.
  68. Yun Hee Cho & Joo-Heon Lee, 2020. "A Study on the Effects of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Learning Orientation on Financial Performance: Focusing on Mediating Effects of Market Orientation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-19, June.
  69. Wai, Jonathan & Worrell, Frank C., 2021. "The future of intelligence research and gifted education," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
  70. Beltrametti, Luca & Cardullo, Gabriele, 2024. "Hope, Noise, and the Efficiency of Perfect Meritocracy," IZA Discussion Papers 17532, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  71. Marcel Preuss & Germ'an Reyes & Jason Somerville & Joy Wu, 2022. "Inequality of Opportunity and Income Redistribution," Papers 2209.00534, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2025.
  72. Didier Sornette & Spencer Wheatley & Peter Cauwels, 2019. "The Fair Reward Problem: The Illusion Of Success And How To Solve It," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(03), pages 1-52, May.
  73. Ronayne, David & Sgroi, Daniel, 2018. "Ignoring Good Advice," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 359, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
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