Sharing the Prize 
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8-6-14
Review of Gavin Wright’s “Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South”
by Mike O’Connor
That southern businesses had to be coerced by the federal government to open their doors to blacks — which proved to be an economic boon — suggests that government economic intervention can succeed, contrary to libertarian claims.
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