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Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws (Hardcover)

by Richard Epstein (Author)
Key Phrases: basic antidiscrimination norm, voluntary sorting, disparate impact test, Supreme Court, Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow (more...)
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Epstein has convinced me...that the abuses of the anti-discrimination laws are so intimately connected with misconceptions in the laws themselves that any benefits from them will always be far outweighed by the harm they do.
--Harry V. Jaffa (Wall Street Journal )

Forbidden Grounds covers not only laws on racial discrimination but also sex discrimination, age discrimination and disability discrimination. Never has the whole range of anti-discrimination laws been subjected to such a thorough and penetrating critique. No one who writes on this subject again can be taken seriously if he [or she] does not confront the analysis presented here by Epstein.
--Thomas Sowell (Forbes )

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This timely and controversial book presents powerful theoretical and empirical arguments for the repeal of the anti-discrimination laws within the workplace. Richard Epstein demonstrates that these laws set one group against another, impose limits on freedom of choice, unleash bureaucratic excesses, mandate inefficient employment practices, and cause far more invidious discrimination than they prevent. Epstein urges a return to the now-rejected common law principles of individual autonomy that permit all persons to improve their position through trade, contract, and bargain, free of government constraint.



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Product Details
  • Hardcover: 530 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press (March 1, 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0674308085
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674308084
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #867,072 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • In-Print Editions: Paperback  |  All Editions