Title: Poisoning the Well: Law & Economics and Racial Inequality
Abstract: My gratitude extends to other readers as well, including Lisa Dornell and Alice Suggs.All of the Article's shortcomings are my own.i. Others have been similarly affected.In assessing the impact of Gary Becker's The Economics of Discrimination (2d ed.I71), a leading commentator concluded that the book "succeeded in inhibiting the minds of economists in a way that seemed to stifle further theoretical developments in much the way that weeds stifle the growth of more desirable vegetation."I