The public perception that economists do not agree upon anything is probably even more disconcerting than their failures in prediction and control. Something happens and then upon the TV screen appear two economists who in the 30 seconds alloted them …
Since World War II there has been no significant change in the employment probabilities of both blacks and whites. In both good times and bad, black unemployment rates are approximately twice as high as those of whites. This was true …
The Target Probably all the people in the United States—left, right, and center—would say they are in favor of an equitable society. The differences arise with regard to what exactly is meant by equity, and the divergent evaluations of the …