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Race & economics : how much can be blamed on discrimination? / Walter E. Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hoover Institution Press publication ; 599.Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2011.Description: ix, 174 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780817912444 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0817912444 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780817912451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0817912452 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Race and economics
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.6/396073 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.8 .W49 2011
Contents:
Blacks today and yesterday -- Is discrimination a complete barrier to economic mobility? -- Race and wage regulation -- Occupational and business licensing -- Excluding blacks from trades -- Racial terminology and confusion -- Summary and conclusions.
Summary: "Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and present to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities"--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-166) and index.

Blacks today and yesterday -- Is discrimination a complete barrier to economic mobility? -- Race and wage regulation -- Occupational and business licensing -- Excluding blacks from trades -- Racial terminology and confusion -- Summary and conclusions.

"Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and present to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities"--Jacket.

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