Sharing the Prize

Gavin Wright

“Gavin Wright has written a definitive study of the economic implications of the civil rights revolution in the American South. He shows that while highly useful, economic analysis must be richer and more socially oriented than usual in characterizing the nature of racial discrimination in the South.”—Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University

“By placing economics at the heart of his investigation of the central issues of the civil rights movement, Wright deepens and expands our understanding of what was at stake for those who participated in the civil rights movement as well as those who opposed it.”—James C. Cobb, University of Georgia

“Sharing the Prize is an exceptionally rich study of the civil rights revolution in the American South and will immediately become the book on its economic dimensions.”—Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Sharing the Prize transforms quite dramatically our understanding of the economics of the civil rights movement in the South, showing how the civil disobedience of black Southerners wrought a transformation that improved the lives of whites as well as blacks.”—Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University

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• At Bloomberg.com, read Gavin Wright’s overview of the economic dimension to the campaigns for equal treatment of blacks as consumers

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