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Race, Liberalism, and Economics.
Title:
Race, Liberalism, and Economics.
Author:
Colander, David.
ISBN:
9780472024841
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (345 pages)
Contents:
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 Man -- One 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.
Abstract:
Explores how economic reasoning relates to the broader concepts of liberalism and racism.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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