Description |
viii, 308 pages ; 25 cm |
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. |
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. |
Note |
Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Basic Books in March 2018. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-282) and index. |
Subject |
Income distribution.
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Discrimination -- Economic aspects.
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Minorities -- United States -- Economic conditions.
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Minorities -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Race discrimination -- United States.
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ISBN |
9781541645639 |
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1541645634 |
Standard No. |
15615377 |
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