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Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage Liberia and their electrifying implications forAuthor Contributor(s): Rigney, Daniel Publisher: Columbia University Press Date: 02 23 2010 Binding: Hardcover Condition: NEW 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 more closely we examine the