Race, Liberalism, and Economics

Contents

Contents Preface Introduction PART I Classical Economic and Early Approaches to Race Apes, Essences, and Races: What Natural Scientists Believed about Human Variation, 1700-1900 ix I Brendan O'Flaherty and]ill S. Shapiro 21 The Negro Science of Exchange: Classical Economics and Its Chicago Revival David M. Levy and Sandra]. Peart 56 Contextualizing David Levy's How the Dismal Science Got Its Name; or, Revisiting the Victorian Context of David Levy's History of Race and Economics Susan Zlotnick 85 John Stuart Mill on Race, Liberty, and Markets Falguni A. Sheth 100 PART 2 Neoclassical and Modern Approaches to Racism "Not an Average Human Being": How Economics Succumbed to Racial Accounts of Economic Man Sandra]. Peart and David M. Levy 123 VIII CONTENTS One Hundred Years of American Economists on Race and Discrimination, 1881- 1981 Robert E. Prasch Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market William A. Darity Jr. and Patrick L. Mason Liberty and Equality and Diversity? Thoughts on Liberalism and Racial Inequality after Capitalism's Latest Triumph Marcellus Andrews The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: A Clarification Glenn C. Loury PART 3 Policy Issues Pragmatism, Liberalism, and Economic Policy David Colander Better Recreational Drugs: Unleashing Technology to Win the War on Bad Drugs Vanita Gowda and Brendan O'Flaherty Bibliography About the Authors Index 145 205 259 275 31 5 ...