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Race and economics

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I've like Thomas Sowell's books for a while now. I've mainly read Sowell's books from the 1990s like his race trilogy and Inside America's Education System. Race and economics was published in 1975 so itgoes back to his early career. He provides a history about the correlation between, race, ethnicity and economics have played themselves out in America. He first deals with slavery and American blacks to see how slavery affected the American economic system and compares that Latin American and Caribbean slavery. He also looks at how slavery affected American blacks differently from Latin American/Cariibean blacks. Sowell also deals with immigrant ethnic groups like Japanese, Jews, Irish, Italians and Puerto Ricans and look at their development in America and compares them to look at their different developments and cultual beleifs. TO end, Sowell also deals with race and the market and race in governmetn. He looks at how things such as rent controls and minimum wage laws have affected minority groups. He also looks at future possibiliites of race in America looking at different approaches like the conservative approach, the reform approach and militant approach.