Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell examines why outcomes differ between groups and argues that discrimination explains far less of the gap than is commonly assumed.
Sowell separates two meanings of discrimination: judging individuals by evidence about them, and treating people unfairly because of the group they belong to. He then sets out the many other forces behind unequal outcomes, among them geography, birth order, age, culture and the timing of history. Drawing on data from several countries and centuries, this revised and enlarged edition argues that equal results were never the natural starting point.
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