The Economics and Politics of Race
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : New York : W. Morrow
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : New York : W. Morrow
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
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Author : Brendan O'Flaherty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674368185
Brendan O’Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis—incentives, equilibrium, optimization—to bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Walter E. Williams
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0817912460
Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. He debunks many common labor market myths and reveals how excessive government regulation and the minimum-wage law have imposed incalculable harm on the most disadvantaged members of our society.
Author : Melvin Leiman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1459610504
An intense and compact resource for understanding how the political economy of racism evolved in the United States.'' - Science & Society Racism is about more than individual prejudice. And it is hardly the relic of a past era. This scholarly, readable, and provocative book shows how the persistence of racism in America relies on the changing interests of those who hold the real power in society and use every possible means to hold onto it.
Author : Thomas Sowell
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0465058728
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these radically different views of race in these two eras were held by intellectuals whose views on other issues were very similar in both eras. Intellectuals and Race is not, however, a book about history, even though it has much historical evidence, as well as demographic, geographic, economic and statistical evidence-- all of it directed toward testing the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed at times among intellectuals in general, and especially intellectuals at the highest levels. Nor is this simply a theoretical exercise. The impact of intellectuals' ideas and crusades on the larger society, both past and present, is the ultimate concern. These ideas and crusades have ranged widely from racial theories of intelligence to eugenics to "social justice" and multiculturalism. In addition to in-depth examinations of these and other issues, Intellectuals and Race explores the incentives, the visions and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups, but for societies as a whole.
Author : Lawrence D. Bobo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2006-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674013292
The authors explore a lengthy controversy surrounding fishing, hunting, and gathering rights of Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. The book uses a carefully designed survey of public opinion to explore the dynamics of prejudice and political contestation, and to further our understanding of how and why racial prejudice enters into politics in the U.S.
Author : Amy L. Wax
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442200278
Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law of remedies to show that the conventional wisdom is mistaken. She argues that effectively addressing today's persistent racial disparities requires dispelling the confusion surrounding blacks' own role in achieving equality. The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that discrimination against blacks has dramatically abated. The most important factors now impeding black progress are behavioral: low educational attainment, poor socialization and work habits, drug use, criminality, paternal abandonment, and non-marital childbearing. Although these maladaptive patterns are largely the outgrowth of past discrimination and oppression, they now largely resist correction by government programs or outside interventions. Wax asserts that the black community must solve these problems from within. Self-help, changed habits, and a new cultural outlook are, in fact, the only effective tactics for eliminating the present vestiges of our nation's racist past. Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution
Author : Sadie T. M. Alexander
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0300246706
The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander--the first Black American economist In 1921, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander became the first Black American to gain a Ph.D. degree in economics. Unable to find employment as an economist because of discrimination, Alexander became a lawyer so that she could press for equal rights for African Americans. Although her historical significance has been relatively ignored, Alexander was a pioneering civil rights activist who used both the law and economic analysis to challenge racial inequities and deprivations. This volume--a recovery of Sadie Alexander's economic thought--provides a comprehensive account of her thought-provoking speeches and writings on the relationship between democracy, race, and justice. Nina Banks's introductions bring fresh insight into the events and ideologies that underpinned Alexander's outlook and activism. A brilliant intellectual, Alexander called for bold, redistributive policies that would ensure racial justice for Black Americans while also providing a foundation to safeguard democracy.