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 | The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage (1st Edition) by Daniel Rigney Phd Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-231-14948-4 / 0231149484 ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14948-8 / 9780231149488 The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named after a passage in the gospel of Matthew. Yet the | |