The Economics of Race in the United States / / 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 of...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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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 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (480 p.) :; 1 halftone, 1 line illustration, 37 graphs, 3 charts, 6 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- 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