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A discussion of state policy and the affect that popular pressure for affirmative action has upon it. The development of state policies in advanced capitalist and socialist countries are compared in four countries: the USSR and the USA, and Canada and Hungary.
List of contents
Preface, Introduction, 1 Scarcity or Surplus: Which Is the Problem?, 2 The Microeconomics of Discrimination, 3 The Volatility of State Policy Before 1948, 4 The Steady Breakdown of Segregation and Discrimination by the State After 1948, 5 Discrimination in Advanced Capitalist Non-Superpowers, 6 Affirmative Action and Environmental Policy in the USSR Since the Revolution, 7 Discrimination and Segregation in Advanced Socialist Non-Superpowers, 8 Conclusions, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, About the Author
About the author
Lynn Turgeon is Professor of Economics at Hofstra University. Ideas for this book were stimulated by his sabbatical leave in Budapest in 1985, when he studied Gypsies; it reflects his extensive travels in Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R. and his Fulbright lectureship at Moscow State University in 1978. He is also au thor of The Advanced Capita list System, published by M. E. Sharpe in 1980.
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A discussion of state policy and the affect that popular pressure for affirmative action has upon it. The development of state policies in advanced capitalist and socialist countries are compared in four countries: the USSR and the USA, and Canada and Hungary.
