Discrimination and disparities / Thomas Sowell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sowell, Thomas, 1930- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution.

Discrimination--Economic aspects.

Discrimination.

Minorities--United States--Economic conditions.

Minorities.

Minorities--Economic conditions.

United States.

Economic conditions.

Minorities--Economic aspects--United States.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

viii, 308 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

Revised and enlarged edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2019.

Summary:

"In this new, revised and enlarged edition, Discrimination and Disparities goes beyond its analysis--in the first edition--of the sources of disparities and the different kinds of discrimination. It deals with undeniable fact of gross disparities in opportunity, without succumbing to the 'social justice' vision of our time--a vision with demonstrably false assumptions, and solutions that may not even be possible, in any comprehensive and sustainable sense. Instead, some more modest but feasible options are examined."--Dust jacket.

Contents:

Disparities and prerequisites

Discrimination: meanings and costs

Sorting and unsorting people

The world of numbers

The world of words

Social visions and human consequences

Facts, assumptions and goals.

Notes:

"Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Basic Books in March 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-282) and index.

ISBN:

1541645634

9781541645639

OCLC:

1047549451