Race & economics : how much can be blamed on discrimination? / Walter E. Williams.
Material type: TextSeries: Hoover Institution Press publication ; 599.Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2011.Description: ix, 174 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780817912444 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817912444 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817912451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0817912452 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Race and economics
- African Americans -- Economic conditions
- Minorities -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Race discrimination -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Free enterprise -- United States
- Income distribution -- United States
- United States -- Race relations -- Economic aspects
- United States -- Economic policy
- 331.6/396073 23
- E185.8 .W49 2011
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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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