@inbook{10.7864/j.ctt155j43w.6,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt155j43w.6},
 abstract = {The standard view of today’s social reformers is that building character plus building opportunity will break the transmission of poverty from one generation to the next. I think this view, while laudable and a big improvement over the failed strategy of merely building opportunity, is still seriously incomplete. The missing link is thatgood character can take advantage of opportunity only by free will, and free will only works through future-mindedness. This view sounds quaint to twenty-first century ears and so is in need of a history and a justification.Why did science give up the notion of free will?},
 author = {MARTIN E.P. SELIGMAN},
 booktitle = {Does Character Matter?: Essays on Opportunity and the American Dream},
 pages = {10--14},
 publisher = {Brookings Institution Press},
 title = {Free Will Is the Missing Link between Character and Opportunity},
 year = {2015}
}