Arguably, two of the most important national experiences with policies of positive discrimination in favor of historically disadvantaged ethnic or caste minority groups are the cases of 'Affirmative Action' in the United States and 'Reservation Policies' in India. This essential new book examines the consequences of affirmative action in both countries using a clear cost-benefit analysis. All those with an interest in affirmative action will appreciate the book's lucidity, use of evidence and policy implications.

Product Description: Reprints a selection of 22 influential papers by American economist Gordon (1944-96), a pioneer in institutional growth economics who introduced the concept of a social structure of accumulation and contributed to the theory of segmented labor markets and the econometric and historical analysis of their evolution...read more

Product Description: This paperback book of readings, to which 60 people (mostly social scientists) have contributed, constitutes a massive indictment of the contemporary American economic system. It is cast in Marxian teminology but stripped of some of Marx's turgidity and excess verbiage...read more

Three distinguished economists challenge the assumptions of Reaganomics, offering a twenty-one-point program for economic recovery