Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

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 programs worldwide have not met expectations and have often produced the opposite of what was originally intended.

Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 03/11/2005
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.64w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780300107753
ISBN10: 0300107757
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- Social Science | Discrimination
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Policy

About the Author
Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The author of numerous books, he also writes a nationally syndicated column that appears in more than 150 newspapers and contributes regularly to Forbes magazine. He has taught economics at various colleges and universities, including Cornell, Amherst, and the University of California-Los Angeles.