Bobby Constantino wrote an amazing story about how hard it was to get arrested as an educated white guy wearing the uniform of the upper-class, a suit and tie. It is well worth reading. He is a hero for the…
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Is It Harder For Poor Illiterate White Guys Or Rich Black Harvard Law Graduates To Get Arrested?
Posted in Discrimination, Labor
Weekend Dimmeu, Foodie Edition
Economists frequently dismiss diminishing marginal utility (dimmeu) of wealth for ethical and political concerns, but it is hard to avoid the concept when you start looking at the world. For example, the poorest people cannot afford to pay people to…
Anti-Racism Ideally Helps The Median And Vice Versa
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was an effort to put some teeth behind the 15th Amendment to the constitution. Unfortunately, the 15th amendment was ignored for the first 95 years after it was passed, particularly in the South, so…
Economics of Slavery
There is a little bit of research on slavery that is buried in the back of some inequality research by Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman (pdf) that just floors me. Check out this graph of the total wealth of different…
AP Fires Up Racial Divide
TV news reporter Ty Batemon interviewed me today for a WLIO segment in response to a recent AP article by Hope Yen that has the ridiculous, meaningless headline, “4 in 5 in USA face near-poverty, no work“. This is meaningless…
Posted in Discrimination, Labor
Slavery → Racism → Inequality of Opportunity
Last week I visited the National Archives and viewed the original copy of the US Constitution with my family. I was struck by how the original constitution only contained three explicit rights for individuals: they are freedoms from habeas corpus,…
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Racism and The Achievement Gap
This summer, the entire Bluffton University faculty is reading a Ken Bain book as a focus for meetings about improving our teaching, and it has some sections that are relevant to the Bluffton civic engagement theme I mentioned in my…
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