Lecture Notes and Short Texts in Welfare, Inequality and Redistribution

"Provides a self-contained teaching resource on the economics of persistent racial inequality in the US. It focuses on three key mechanisms – segregation, discrimination, and political inequality – and how they interact through positive feedback processes to perpetuate this form of group inequality." It shows how the three mechanisms are manifested in education and housing, and in the labour and credit markets. Stand-alone text with exercises for the reader and occasional self-test questions, plus cross-references to the CORE textbooks.