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Race, Liberalism, And Economics.

Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Racism, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists' ideas are more complicated. The book considers economists' support of markets in relation to the challenge of race and race...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Colander, David C. (Editor ), Prasch, Robert E., 1958- (Editor ), Sheth, Falguni A., 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Introduction; PART I Classical Economic and Early Approaches to Race; Apes, Essences, and Races: What Natural Scientists Believed about Human Variation, 1700-1900; The Negro Science of Exchange: Classical Economics and Its Chicago Revival; Contextualizing David Levy's How the Dismal Science Got Its Name; or, Revisiting the Victorian Context of David Levy's History of Race and Economics; John Stuart Mill on Race, Liberty, and Markets; PART 2 Neoclassical and Modern Approaches to Racism.
  • ""Not an Average Human Being"": How Economics Succumbed to Racial Accounts of Economic ManOne Hundred Years of American Economists on Race and Discrimination, 1881
  • 1981; Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market; Liberty and Equality and Diversity? Thoughts on Liberalism and Racial Inequality after Capitalism's Latest Triumph; The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: A Clarification; PART 3 Policy Issues; Pragmatism, Liberalism, and Economic Policy; Better Recreational Drugs: Unleashing Technology to Win the War on Bad Drugs; Bibliography; About the Authors; Index.