Charles Murray's 1994 book, The Bell Curve, argued that

a. poverty was caused by society's oversupply of labor.
b. poverty was caused by an unequal educational system.
c. socioeconomic inequality was due to lack of genetic intelligence.
d. minimum wage increases cause job loss.


Answer: c

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