The Economics of Race in the United States / / Brendan O'Flaherty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: O'Flaherty, Brendan,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.) :; 1 halftone, 1 line illustration, 37 graphs, 3 charts, 6 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. What Is Th is Book About? --; 2. Classic Texts --; 3. What Is Race? --; 4. Health and Health Care --; 5. Employment and Earnings --; 6. Immigration --; 7. Education --; 8. Social Life, Friends, Partners, and Children --; 9. Housing and Neighborhoods --; 10. Homeownership, Mortgages, Bubbles, and Foreclosures --; 11. Crime --; 12. Businesses and Entrepreneurs --; 13. Wealth --; 14. Reparations --; 15. Wrapping Up --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674286658; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674286658
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Brendan O'Flaherty.

Brendan O’Flaherty brings the tools of economic analysis—incentives, equilibrium, optimization—to bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.