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让我们误入歧途的神话:关于种族主义与优绩主义的错误信念如何破坏了我们的经济(以及如何修复)

The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
Journal of Economic Literature · 2023 · Kelly Vosters

中文摘要

北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校的 Kelly Vosters 评述了 Jeff Fuhrer 所著《让我们误入歧途的神话:关于种族主义与优绩主义的错误信念如何破坏了我们的经济(以及如何修复)》。本书的 Econlit 摘要开篇写道:“考察了美国关于种族、贫困及成功根源的错误叙事对经济产生负面影响的方式,详述了拥有财富与权力者如何利用此类叙事,在一个使结果偏向既得成功者的体系中维持现状。”

Abstract

Kelly Vosters of University of North Carolina at Charlotte reviews “The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)” by Jeff Fuhrer. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Examines the ways that false narratives concerning race, poverty, and the sources of success in the United States negatively affect the economy, detailing how those with wealth and power have used such narratives to maintain the status quo in a system that slants outcomes toward the already successful.”
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