Gavin Wright paper of civil rights and economics

[Hugh Lawson]

economics.ucr.edu/seminars/fall05/ped/Wright11-14-05.pdf

I've read the paper, and it's very interesting.

Here is a youtube of a Gavin Wright paper presented this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cs-AD4qLow

HL

[Hugh Lawson]

This is an excellent presentation. Wright reports some of his findings
to be presented more fully in a book in progress. IMO Gavin Wright is
THE most respected economic historian of the southern region. The sound
is imperfect, but you can understand.

His thesis: the civil rights revolution in the South produced real
economic progress for black people without hurting anybody else.

I emphasize this, because there is ISTM a strong "national"
wish to believe that "the South never changes".