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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