The Case for Discrimination
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| Author(s) | Walter Block |
| Country | United States |
| Subject(s) | Political economy |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
| Publication date | 28 December 2010 |
| Media type | Print, Digital |
| Pages | xi, 497 p. |
| ISBN | 9781933550817 |
| OCLC Number | 784169074 |
The Case for Discrimination, by American economist Walter Block, and with an introduction by Lew Rockwell, 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 arrangements 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 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.
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. He states that men are nature's crapshoot and women are nature's insurance policy. Research has lent this theory some empirical support.[1]
The expandability of men is also a reason why men are more aggressive, according to Block. If it were a society's young women, rather than its young men, who mostly served as cannon fodder, the reproductive potential of that society would be greatly affected by any high casualty rates.
References
- ↑ Mills, Michael (26 January 2011). "How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There Is No Sex Difference?". Psychology Today. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-how-and-why-sex-differences/201101/how-can-there-still-be-sex-difference-even-when-there-is.
Links
- Document page at Mises.org (including full text)
- Full text (Scribd)
- Articles, essays and reviews
- "Why Discriminate?" by Walter Block, January 2011 (republished here and at LRC here)
- "The Minimum Wage, Discrimination, and Inequality" by Art Carden, January 2009
- ""It's Discrimination!"" by Ben O'Neill, July 2009
- "OMG! There's Discrimination in the Modeling Industry!" by Ben O'Neill, March 2011
- "What Is Walmart's Crime?" by William L. Anderson, June 2011
- "Walmart and Discrimination" by Robert P. Murphy, June 2011
- Costly Discrimination and Ethnic Conflict: The Case of the Liberian Civil Wars (PDF) by Andrew T. Young, February 2008
- "The Case for Discrimination" by Alon Harel and Uzi Segal, January 2011