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Archive for the 'Discrimination' Category
Apr18th2008
Milton Friedman On Race, Poverty And Government
Published by in Capitalism, Chicanoism, Discrimination, Economics, Education, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Minimum Wage, ModernPolitics, Myths, Poverty, Vouchers and affirmative action. 1 CommentFeb12th2008
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Discrimination, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Myths, Poverty and affirmative action. 2 Comments“There was very little civil rights law before Title VII; nevertheless the black-white income differential narrowed more rapidly in that benighted era than it has since. It is possible that antidiscrimination laws do not benefit their intended beneficiaries, because they give the beneficiaries a sense of entitlement and victimhood, foster tokenism, increase employers’ costs, cast […]
Feb11th2008
Why The Slowing Of Black Progress?
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Poverty. 7 CommentsGary Becker’s answer:
Why did the progress of blacks stop well short of achieving full equality with whites, and is the slowdown during the past 20 years in black progress only temporary, or is it an indication of what the racial situation will be during the next few decades? The sharp slowdown is surprising mainly because […]
Nov21st2007
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Capitalism, Discrimination, Economics, General and Hispanics (Minority Issues). 3 Comments“The idea that an American could, under any circumstance of naturalization, become a governor of an Indian province, or be elected to high office in Austria seems remote. Yet we take the inverse for granted here. On Sunday night I spoke to a Jewish group in Fresno in support of Israel; on Wednesday I debated […]
Aug15th2007
The Difference Between Statistical Discrimination And Racism
Published by in DayToDay, Discrimination, Economics and General. 7 CommentsIt always annoys me when someone confuses true racism with statistical discrimination. VivirLatino gives a perfect example of that here. More on statistical discrimination here.
Jul13th2007
Abolish The SAT
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, Education, General, Inequality, Poverty and University. 1 CommentSo argues, persuasively and surprisingly, Charles Murray here.
Because upper-middle-class families produce most of the smartest kids, there is no way to reform the system (short of disregarding intellectual ability altogether) to prevent their children from coming out on top. We can only make sure that high-ability students from disadvantaged backgrounds realize that the nation’s best […]
Jan24th2007
The Minority Case Against The Minimum Wage
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Minimum Wage, Personal and Poverty. 1 CommentMost of you have heard the standard arguments against the minimum wage - that it is a weak poverty reduction tool, it increases prices, increases unemployment, hurts small businesses, makes the economy less efficient, etc, etc, but what I want to write about today is the harm done by the minimum wage that is least […]
Dec6th2006
“The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that. Politics exacerbates and magnifies differences.”–Milton Friedman
Nov15th2006
” In 2001, comparing men and women who never married, never had a child, worked full time, and were college educated, women earned 117% of what men earned. That is, after controlling for marital status, having children, hours worked and education, men earned 85% of what women earned”. — Dr. Mark J. Perry, professor of […]
Nov14th2006
“The youth unemployment rate is largely an artefact of French law. If employers were free to fire employees without cause, as under “employment at will,” the most common form of employment contract in the U.S. private sector, they would be much more willing to take a chance on hiring workers without a record of satisfactory […]
Aug2nd2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Poverty and affirmative action. 0 CommentsThe greatest dilemma in attempts to raise ethnic minority income is that those methods which have historically proved successful — self-reliance, work skills, education, business, experience — are all slow developing, while those methods which are direct and immediate — job quotas, charity, subsidies, preferential treatment — tend to undermine self-reliance and pride of achievement […]
Jul28th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Chicanoism, Discrimination, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and Minimum Wage. 0 Comments“My mother arrived in Britain penniless, but fortunately for her—and for Britain—no one sought to persuade her that she need not learn English, and no one set up expensive and ineffective services for her in case she did not. She was not obliged to give up her tastes or conform in private respects, but she […]
Jul19th2006
The Crazy 60’s
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Myths. 13 CommentsThomas Sowell sets the record straight on many supposedly good things that came out of the 1960’s:
While liberals may think of the 1960s as the beginning of many “progressive” trends in American society, cold hard facts tell a very different story. The 1960s marked the end of many beneficial trends that had been going on […]
Jun8th2006
Quote Of The Day
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, Europe, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues), Immigration and Welfare. 0 Comments“On the face of it, America’s welfare system is harsher and less hospitable than Europe’s, something that many liberals lament. But in this respect, at least, that appearance is misleading. The unintended consequences of Europe’s milder regime are not just a looming fiscal collapse but also, in the meantime, intensifying and plainly self-destructive […]
Apr5th2006
“Many economists have recognized for more than a decade that the generous minimum wages and other rigidities of the French labor market caused unemployment rates that have remained stubbornly high since the early 1990’s. Immigrants, youths, and other new entrants into the labor market have been hurt the most since they have had the greatest […]
Nov29th2005
Thomas Sowell On The French Economy
Published by in Discrimination, Economics, Europe, General, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Minimum Wage. 0 CommentsThomas Sowell looks at minorities in France and minorities in the United States, and compares:
Let us go back a few generations in the United States. We need not speculate about racial discrimination because it was openly spelled out in laws in the Southern states, where most blacks lived, and was not unknown in the North.
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