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Title:

The Wealth of races : the present value of benefits from past injustices / edited by Richard F. America.

Publisher:

Greenwood Press,

Copyright Date:

1990

Description:

xix, 219 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Race discrimination--United States--Costs.
Restitution--United States.
Slavery--Economic aspects--United States.
Racial discrimination
United States

Other Authors:

America, Richard F.

Other Titles:

Races.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Black exploitation and white benefits: the Civil War income revolution / Richard Vedder, Lowell Gallaway, and David C. Klingaman. Slave exploitation in neoclassical economics: criticism and an alternative direction / Susan F. Feiner and Bruce B. Roberts -- Achieving racial equality through restitution: Racial inequality and reparations / David H Swinton. An illustrative estimate: the present value of the benefits from racial discrimination, 1929-1969 / Berkeley working paper #1. Income transfers: are they compensation for past discrimination? / Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk. The social debt to blacks: a case for affirmative action / Stanley H. Masters. What was lost: the cost of slavery and discrimination for blacks / Lynn C. Burbridge. Achieving parity through reparations / Robert S. Browne.
Overview and summary: Forty Acres and a mule: placing a price tag on oppression / William Darity, Jr. -- Economic History and the current benefits and costs of slavery: Past history and current policy: the legacy of slavery / Stanley L. Engerman. Who pays for slavery? / Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch. An appraisal of the estimated rates of slave exploitation / Sheryl Bailey-Williams -- Slavery and the economics of discrimination: Black labor in the American economy since emancipation: What are the legacies of history? / Warren C. Whatley and Gavin Wright. A calculation and comparison of the current benefits of slavery and an analysis of who benefits / Larry Neal. Estimated present value of income diverted during slavery / James Marketti.

Series:

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 132

ISBN:

9780313257537 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) :
0313257531 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) :

LCCN:

89025728

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)