1.2. In his book Forbidden Grounds, University of Chicago Professor Richard Epstein argues that federal employment antidiscrimination...
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1.2. In his book Forbidden Grounds, University of Chicago Professor Richard Epstein argues that federal employment antidiscrimination laws ought to be abolished. [Hint:
Reading Westmont College economist Edd Noell’s paper
“Racial Discrimination, Police Power and the 1964 Civil Rights Act in Richard Epstein’s Forbidden Grounds: An Evaluation of The Case Against Discrimination Laws”
(available on the web at ACE, www.gordon.edu/ace) will be helpful in answering this question.]
a. How might a Christian economist evaluate the need for federal laws prohibiting racial discrimination?
b. Why should a Christian economist think more carefully than another economist about the relation between economic liberty and tolerance of the taste for discrimination?
(Religious)
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