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The Troubling Economic Logic of Racially Charged Policies
The Troubling Economic Logic of Racially Charged Policies
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28 minutes
Released:
Feb 12, 2020
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Could racially charged policies cause you to act racist, even if you aren’t actually a racist? That’s the story two political scientists, Stephane Wolton and Torun Dewan from the London School of Economics and Political Science, tell in a recent paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3397918 On this episode, we discuss the possibly hidden story behind symbolic policies like the Trump administration’s border wall and Muslim travel ban, or Europe’s burqa bans. Could these racially charged policies really be about economics?
Released:
Feb 12, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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