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Author Williams, Walter E. (Walter Edward), 1936-2020, author

Title Race and economics : how much can be blamed on discrimination? / Walter E. Williams
Published Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 174 pages)
Series Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 599
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 599
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"--Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-166) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject African Americans -- Economic conditions.
Minorities -- United States -- Economic conditions
Race discrimination -- Economic aspects -- United States
Free enterprise -- United States
Income distribution -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
Economic policy.
Free enterprise.
Income distribution.
Minorities -- Economic conditions.
Race discrimination -- Economic aspects.
Race relations -- Economic aspects.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- Economic aspects
United States -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140033
Subject United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0817912460
9780817912468
9780817912482
0817912487