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

Title Race & economics : how much can be blamed on discrimination? / Walter E. Williams.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, [2011]
2011

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Description 1 online resource (185 pages).
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Series Hoover Institution Press publication ; number 599
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 599.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--Jacket.
Note Description based on 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.
United States -- Race relations -- Economic aspects.
United States -- Economic policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Race and economics
Other Form: Print version: Williams, Walter E. Race & economics : how much can be blamed on discrimination?. Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, [2011] ix, 174 pages ; 24 cm. Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 599 9780817912451 (OCoLC)ocn711756467
ISBN 9780817912444 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817912444 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817912451 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0817912452 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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