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Minorities And Privatization: Economic Mobility At Risk, Robert Suggs
Minorities And Privatization: Economic Mobility At Risk, Robert Suggs
Robert E. Suggs
This important study identifies the effects of municipal privatization on blacks and Hispanics. The author examines three fundamental issues: how privatization affects minority employment in municipal government; how it affects minority employment in the resulting private sector positions; and how it affects city contracting among minority-owned businesses. Contents: Introduction; Privatization in Theory and Practice; The Impact of Privatization on Minority Employment in Government; The Impact of Privatization on Minority Employment in the Private Sector; The Impact of Privatization on Minority Business Opportunities; Recommendations.
Poisoning The Well: Law & Economics And Racial Inequality, Robert Suggs
Poisoning The Well: Law & Economics And Racial Inequality, Robert Suggs
Robert E. Suggs
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 dwarf disparities in income by orders of magnitude. This disparity in business revenues is a major factor in the persistence …
Multi-Community Membership, Free Riders, And Effective Governance, Robert Suggs
Multi-Community Membership, Free Riders, And Effective Governance, Robert Suggs
Robert E. Suggs
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