Discrimination and disparities / Thomas Sowell.
Publication details: New York : Basic Books, 2019.Edition: Revised and enlarged editionDescription: viii, 308 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 1541645634
- 9781541645639
- Minorities -- Economic aspects
- Minorities -- Economic conditions
- Race discrimination
- Income distribution
- Discrimination -- Economic aspects
- Economic development
- Economic policy
- Minorities -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Minorities -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Race discrimination -- United States
- United States
- 339.2 23
- E184.A1 S686 2019
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 339.2 SOW | Available | 071029 |
"Originally published in hardcover and ebook by Basic Books in March 2018"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
