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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2006-Winter 2007
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2006-Winter 2007
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2006
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2006
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Poisoning The Well: Law & Economics And Racial Inequality, Robert E. Suggs
Poisoning The Well: Law & Economics And Racial Inequality, Robert E. Suggs
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The standard Law & Economics analysis of racial discrimination has stunted our thinking about race. Its early conclusion, that laws prohibiting racial discrimination were unnecessary and wasteful, discredited economic analysis of racial phenomena within the civil rights community. As a consequence we know little about the impact of racial discrimination on commercial transactions between business firms. Laws do not prohibit racial discrimination in transactions between business firms, and the disparity in business revenues between racial minorities and the white mainstream dwarfs disparities in income by orders of magnitude. This disparity in business revenues is a major factor in the persistence …