The Economics and Politics of Race
Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : New York : W. Morrow |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : New York : W. Morrow |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brendan O'Flaherty |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2015-06-08 |
Genre | : 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 | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : Walter E. Williams |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 738 |
Release | : 2011-02-02 |
Genre | : 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 | : Amy L. Wax |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2009-07-16 |
Genre | : 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 | : Paul M. Sniderman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674145788 |
If white Americans could reveal what they really think about race, without the risk of appearing racist, what would they say? In this elegantly written and innovative book, Paul Sniderman and Edward Carmines illuminate aspects of white Americans' thinking about the politics of race previously hidden from sight. And in a thoughtful follow-up analysis, they point the way toward public policies that could gain wide support and reduce the gap between black and white Americans. Their discoveries will surprise pollsters and policymakers alike. The authors show that prejudice, although by no means gone, has lost its power to dominate the political thinking of white Americans. Concentrating on the new race-conscious agenda, they introduce a method of hidden measurement which reveals that liberals are just as angry over affirmative action as conservatives and that racial prejudice, while more common among conservatives, is more powerful in shaping the political thinking of liberals. They also find that the good will many whites express for blacks is not feigned but represents a genuine regard for blacks, which they will stand by even when given a perfectly acceptable excuse to respond negatively to blacks. More crucially, Sniderman and Carmines show that the current impasse over race can be overcome if we remember what we once knew. The strongest arguments in behalf of equality for black Americans reach beyond race to the moral principles that give the issue of race itself a moral claim on us.
Author | : Thomas Sowell |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0465096778 |
In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography, demography, and culture. Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others on the left, Sowell draws on accurate empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe. Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time.
Author | : Sadie T. M. Alexander |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : 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.