Episode · EconTalk · 2023-09-04

Russ Roberts & Roland Fryer: books mentioned on EconTalk (Sep 2023)

Roland Fryer on Race, Diversity, and Affirmative Action

2 books · With Roland Fryer · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Can economics and better measurement help us understand racial disparities and suggest how to reduce or eliminate them? Economist Roland Fryer of Harvard University believes deeply in the power of data to help us understand how the world works and how we might change it.

Russ Roberts discussed The economics of discrimination by Gary Stanley Becker. Roland Fryer discussed The Philadelphia Negro by W. E. B. Du Bois.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   The economics of discrimination

   Gary Stanley Becker · at 0:30

   The Economics of Discrimination by Gary Stanley Becker is a foundational economic text that analyzes the market forces and individual motivations underlying racial and social disparities.

   Discussed

   “We'll try not to, but um what have we learned when we start going back to say Gary Becker's book, which was 1957 if I remember correctly, on uh the economics of discrimination?”

   Russ Roberts Roland Fryer on Race, Diversity, and Affirmative Action 2023-09-04 Listen at 0:30

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2. 

   The Philadelphia Negro

   W. E. B. Du Bois · at 1:02:20

   The Philadelphia Negro by W.E.B.

   Discussed

   “Look at Du Bois, Philadelphia Negro. Look at what they ask in the back of that in 1895.”

   Roland Fryer Roland Fryer on Race, Diversity, and Affirmative Action 2023-09-04 Listen at 1:02:20

   Where to get it

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