Print version: Williams, Walter E. Race & economics : how much can be blamed on discrimination?. Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, [2011] ix, 174 pages ; 24 cm. Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 599 ISBN 9780817912451
Includes bibliographical references and index
Blacks today and yesterday -- Is discrimination a complete barrier to economic mobility? -- Race and wage regulation -- Occupational and business licensing -- Excluding blacks from trades -- Racial terminology and confusion -- Summary and conclusions.
"Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and present to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities"--Jacket..