Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader

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331 About the Editor jonat h a n j. be a n is Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and professor of history at Southern Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1994. Dr. Bean is a recipient of the Henry Adams Prize for Best Book of the Year from the Society for History in the Federal Government as well as the Herman E. Krooss Prize from the Business History Conference , and he is a member of the Academic Hall of Fame at St. Michael’s College. He was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 2005 and teaches courses on business history, public policy, the Great Depression, and U.S. history. His books include Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration (2001), Beyond the Broker State: Federal Policies Toward Small Business, 1936–1961 (1996), and Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader (2009). His scholarly essays have appeared in the Independent Review, the Journal of Policy History, the African American National Biography, Enterprise and Society, Business History Review, and the Historian. His popular articles and interviews have appeared in U.S. News & World Report, National Review, the Weekly Standard, Fortune Small Business, American Banker, Business Week, Correio Braziliense, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has done background research for Mother Jones, Salon, and CBS Evening News. His public appearances have included on-air radio interviews, a C-Span show, and testimony before the United States Senate. INDEPENDENT STUDIES IN POLITICAL ECONOMY For further information and a catalog of publications, please contact: THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE 100 Swan Way, Oakland, California 94621-1428, U.S.A. 510-632-1366 · Fax 510-568-6040 · info@independent.org · www.independent.org THE ACADEMY IN CRISIS: The Political Economy of Higher Education | Ed. by John W. Sommer AGAINST LEVIATHAN: Government Power and a Free Society | Robert Higgs ALIENATION AND THE SOVIET ECONOMY: The Collapse of the Socialist Era | Paul Craig Roberts AMERICAN HEALTH CARE: Government, Market Processes and the Public Interest | Ed. by Roger Feldman ANARCHY AND THE LAW: The Political Economy of Choice | Ed. by Edward P. Stringham ANTITRUST AND MONOPOLY: Anatomy of a Policy Failure | D. T. Armentano ARMS, POLITICS, AND THE ECONOMY: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives | Ed. by Robert Higgs BEYOND POLITICS: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy | William Mitchell & Randy Simmons THE CAPITALIST REVOLUTION IN LATIN AMERICA | Paul Craig Roberts & Karen Araujo THE CHALLENGE OF LIBERTY: Classical Liberalism Today | Ed. by Robert Higgs & Carl P. Close CHANGING THE GUARD: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime | Ed. by Alexander Tabarrok THE CHE GUEVARA MYTH AND THE FUTURE OF LIBERTY | Alvaro Vargas Llosa CUTTING GREEN TAPE: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation and the Law | Ed. by Richard Stroup & Roger E. Meiners THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM | Arthur A. Ekrich, Jr. DEPRESSION, WAR, AND COLD WAR: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity | Robert Higgs THE DIVERSITY MYTH: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus | David O. Sacks & Peter A. Thiel DRUG WAR CRIMES: The Consequences of Prohibition | Jeffrey A. Miron ELECTRIC CHOICES: Deregulation and the Future of Electric Power | Ed. by Andrew Kleit THE EMPIRE HAS NO CLOTHES: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed | Ivan Eland ENTREPRENEURIAL ECONOMICS: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science | Ed. by Alexander Tabarrok FAULTY TOWERS: Tenure and the Structure of Higher Education | Ryan Amacher & Roger Meiners THE FOUNDERS' SECOND AMENDMENT: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms | Stephen P. Halbrook FREEDOM, FEMINISM, AND THE STATE | Ed. by Wendy McElroy GOOD MONEY: Private Enterprise and the Foundation of Modern Coinage | George Selgin HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH?: FDA Regulation of Health Care Products | Ed. by Robert Higgs HOT TALK, COLD SCIENCE: Global Warming’s Unfinished Debate | S. Fred Singer JUDGE AND JURY: American Tort Law on Trial | Eric Helland & Alex Tabarrok LESSONS FROM THE POOR: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit | Ed. by Alvaro Vargas Llosa LIBERTY FOR LATIN AMERICA: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression | Alvaro Vargas Llosa LIBERTY FOR WOMEN: Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-first Century | Ed. by Wendy McElroy MAKING POOR NATIONS RICH: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development | Ed. by Benjamin Powell MARKET FAILURE OR SUCCESS: The New Debate | Ed. by Tyler Cowen & Eric Crampton MONEY AND THE NATION STATE: The Financial Revolution, Government, and the World Monetary System | Ed. by Kevin Dowd & Richard H. Timberlake, Jr. NEITHER LIBERTY NOR SAFETY: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government | Robert Higgs & Carl P. Close OPPOSING THE CRUSADER STATE: Alternatives to Global Interventionism | Ed. by Robert Higg & Carl P. Close OUT...