August 1, 2010
Entrepreneurship and the Taste for Discrimination
Christopher Coyne
Associate Director, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Justin P. Isaacs
Professor of Economics and Business, Hampden-Sydney CollegeJeremy T. Schwartz
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Youngstown State University
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To speak with a scholar or learn more on this topic, visit our contact page.This paper analyzes the connection between discrimination and entrepreneurship. The study contends that the entrepreneur is the central mechanism through which inefficiencies associated with discrimination are competed away. In addition to illuminating the mechanism through which existing discrimination tends to be eliminated, we also consider the more difficult case of consumer discrimination.
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