Discrimination and disparities
By: Thomas Sowell
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781541645608
Subjects: Economic conditions; Race discrimination; Income distribution; Discrimination; Economic aspects; Minorities
Description: "Challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, explotitation or genetics. It offers its own new analysis, based on an entirely different approach--and backed up with empirical evidence from around the world. The point is not to recommend some particular policy "fix", but to clarify why so many policy fixes have turned out to be counterproductive, and to expose some seemingly invincible fallacies behind many of those conterproductive policies"--Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Disparities and prerequisites; title: Discrimination : meanings and costs; title: Sorting and unsorting people; title: The world of numbers; title: Social visions and human consequences.