The Case for Discrimination
| The Case for Discrimination | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Walter Block |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
| Publication date | 30 December 2010 |
| Pages | 512 |
| ISBN | 1933550813 |
The Case for Discrimination, by Walter Block, is a book that both explains discrimination and encourages the government's allowing private sector actors to engage in it. It addresses subjects such as how the minimum wage laws harm racial minorities and how sexual harassment laws have failed to take into account that some women are willing to accept employment arranagements in which they are paid to allow men to make sexual advances toward them. He cites the example of those strippers whose customers use the giving of paper money to them as a pretext for getting close to them and making sexual overtures. Block also examines the sociobiological reasons why most Nobel prize winners, chess grandmasters, and heads of government tend to be men, arguing that individual men are relatively expendable from the standpoint of a society's reproductive capacity, and therefore evolution has tended to cause men's genes to be more given to extremely high or low quality than women's. Block points out as well that only the bisexual refrain from discriminating against one gender or the other in whom they are willing to have sex with. The introduction was written by Lew Rockwell.