Race, liberalism, and economics / edited by David Colander, Robert E. Prasch, and Falguni A. Sheth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Colander, David C.

Prasch, Robert E., 1958-

Sheth, Falguni A., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations--Economic aspects.

Race relations.

Racism--Economic aspects--United States.

Racism.

Liberalism--United States.

Liberalism.

United States--Race relations--Economic aspects.

United States.

United States--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores how economic reasoning relates to the broader concepts of liberalism and racism.

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 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-307) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-44537-5

9786612445378

0-472-02484-1

OCLC:

743199640