Description: In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has been in effect. Evaluating his empirical data, Thomas Sowell concludes that race preference programmes worldwide have not met expectations and have often produced the opposite of what was originally intended. "A delight: terse, well-argued, and utterly convincing." Economist "Among contemporary economists and social theorists, one of the most prolific, intellectually independent, and iconoclastic is Thomas Sowell ...Enormously learned, wonderfully clear-headed, he sees reality as it is, and flinches at no truth ...Sowell's presentation of the data is instructive and illuminating - and disturbing."Carl Cohen, Commentary "Another brilliant, bracing achievement by Thomas Sowell. With characteristic lucidity, erudition, and depth, Sowell examines the true effects of affirmative action around the globe. This book is compelling, important, mind-opening." Amy Chua, author of World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability "A masterpiece that deserves to be one of the most influential books of our time. Any honest reader will be informed and enlightened."Donald Kagan, Yale University
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EAN: 9780300107753
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Book Title: Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical
Item Length: 21.1 cm
Item Height: 210 mm
Item Width: 140 mm
Author: Thomas Sowell
Publication Name: Affirmative Action Around the World: an Empirical Study
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Government, Sociology
Publication Year: 2005
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 317 g
Number of Pages: 256 Pages