1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780704603321

Autore

Colander David C

Titolo

Race, Liberalism, and Economics [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-44537-5

9786612445378

0-472-02484-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PraschRobert E. <1958->

ShethFalguni A

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Electronic books. -- local

Liberalism -- United States

Race relations -- Economic aspects

Racism -- Economic aspects -- United States

United States -- Economic policy

United States -- Race relations -- Economic aspects

Ethnic & Race Studies

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910915698003321

Autore

Feuer Michael J

Titolo

Can Schools Save Democracy? : Civic Education and the Common Good

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781421447780

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Disciplina

370.115

Soggetti

Democracy and education

Common good

Civics - Study and teaching

Democracy and education - United States

Civics - Study and teaching - United States

Electronic books.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Free to bruise : political economy and the limits of liberty -- Civics as process and product : origins and opportunities -- Curricular options : contents and discontents -- Beyond the schoolhouse : a collective responsibility -- Epilog : "commons" sense for civic education.

Sommario/riassunto

"Adds a new voice to growing chorus of advocacy for revival of civic education, with a focus on the role of government in mediating tensions between individual rights and the public good"--