Pervasive Prejudice?: Unconventional Evidence of Race and Gender Discrimination

by Ian Ayres

Book Overview

If you're a woman and you shop for a new car, will you really get the best deal? If you're a man, will you fare better? If you're a black man waiting to receive an organ transplant, will you have to wait longer than a white man?

In Pervasive Prejudice? Ian Ayres confronts these questions and more. In a series of important studies he finds overwhelming evidence that in a variety of markets--retail car sales, bail bonding, kidney transplantation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226033511
• ISBN13: 9780226033518
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 445 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"