Race and Gender in the US Economy: How Markets and Constitutional Law Shape Economic Status

Race and Gender in the US Economy is the first economic and legal analysis of the economic status of women and Asian, Black, and Latinx Americans in the United States. Building on his decades of expertise, Gerald Jaynes argues that many economists undervalue the impact that changing antidiscrimination laws had on the behavioral norms of the American people as men and women fought to end discrimination in America’s markets and other institutions. These fights often happened outside the econo...