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A collection of essays on a range of controversial issues surrounding race, education, the environment, the United States Constitution, and more.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 -- Blacks Today and Yesterday -- CHAPTER 2 -- Is Discrimination a Complete Barrier to Economic Mobility? -- CHAPTER 3 -- Race and Wage Regulation -- CHAPTER 4 -- Occupational and BusinessÅ Licensing -- CHAPTER 5 -- Excluding Blacks from Trades -- CHAPTER 6 -- Racial Terminology and Confusion -- CHAPTER 7 -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index

"Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and present to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities"--Publisher

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface -- One - Starting Out -- Two - Rudderless and Drifting -- Three - In the Army Now -- Four - Heading West for Opportunity -- Five - Heading East for Opportunity -- Six - Teaching and Preaching -- Seven - Afterthoughts -- Index.

In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter Williams offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics. Although many of these essays focus on the growth of government and our loss of liberty, many others demonstrate how the tools of freemarket economics can be used to improve our lives in ways ordinary people can understand

In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights and brutal honesty. He offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics, always with an uncompromising reverence for personal liberty and the principles laid out in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

"Heirs of the Wizard" is a rather shallow attempt to dismiss the contributions of Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, and Shelby Steele to issues surrounding race. Clarence E. Walker's misunderstanding of issues discussed by Sowell and Williams is captured by his phrase "practices that raise questions about Williams's faith in the market." Speaking for myself, and probably Sowell, it is not a faith in the market as much as evidence about the market upon which we rely.

The South African economy is widely misrepresented, not least by the Western media, as being an oppressive capitalist regime. Walter Williams, Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Virginia, demonstrates how South Africa's economy has been socialist for many decades. What South Africa requires is less socialism, not more.

Conventional wisdom asserts that differences in SES between blacks & whites are a result of racial discrimination. While racial discrimination does play a role, its relative importance must be reevaluated in light of several facts: (1) other despised minority groups, such as Jews, Japanese, Polish, & Irish faced open hostility but assimilated as a group into the mainstream of American life; (2) in spite of billions of dollars, civil litigation, & legislative measures, a larger segment of the black community is worse off than during racially hostile times. It is argued that today it is not racial discrimination per se that handicaps blacks, but laws such as minimum wage legislation & occupational & business licensing -- labor laws created to monopolize markets. These laws, while not having a racial intent, produce a racial effect & hence, make permanent handicaps held by many minority persons. The essential feature of the laws that produce this effect is that they restrict voluntary exchange & hence deny a handicapped person the opportunity to be employed & upgrade his skills through the offering of "compensating differences." Much labor legislation in the US is identical to that in South Africa, where it is intended to prevent blacks opportunity; in the US, there is no such intent, but the laws produce the same effect. 2 Tables. AA.