Race & economics
Subtitle: how much can be blamed on discrimination?
By: Walter E. Williams
Series: Hoover Institution Press publication -- no. 599; Hoover Institution Press publication -- 599.
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780817912444; 9780817912451; 9780817912460
Subjects: Race relations; Income distribution; Free enterprise; Minorities; African Americans; Economic conditions; Race discrimination; Economic policy; Economic aspects
Other titles: Race and economics
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Blacks today and yesterday; title: Is discrimination a complete barrier to economic mobility?; title: Race and wage regulation; title: Occupational and business licensing; title: Excluding blacks from trades; title: Racial terminology and confusion; title: Summary and conclusions.