Discrimination as Focal Point: Markets and Group Identity

Forum for Social Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 128-138

  Basu, Kaushik ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

affirmative action; discrimination; externality; market failure

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018992876     PISSN: 07360932     EISSN: 18746381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2017.1307132     Document Type: Article

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