200 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1988. The author's arguments are a response to five recent and controversial books: Thomas Sowell's Markets and Minorities and Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?, Walter Williams's State Against Blacks, George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty, and William J. Wilson's Declining Significance of Race. These authors insist that racial discrimination can no longer explain the... Read more
Chapter 1 Race, Class and Conservatism: the Issues and the Debate; Chapter 2 Black Social Classes Today; Chapter 3 Conservative Gospel according to Sowell, Williams and Gilder: Everything but Discrimination; Chapter 4 Segmented Markets, Discriminated Labor; Chapter 5 Conservative Economics: False Prophecies, Failed Policies; Conclusion: Race, Class and Conservatism in Retrospect;
Biography
Thomas D. Boston, an Associate Professor of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology, received his PhD degree in economics from Cornell University. He has lectured on race and class in the People's Republic of China and served as visiting scholar in economics at Stanford University.
