Race and Culture
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Race and Culture
| Full title | Race and Culture: A World View |
|---|---|
| Author | Thomas Sowell |
| Published | 1994 |
| Pages | 331 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The first volume of Sowell’s culture trilogy, comparing migrant and minority groups across many countries and centuries — the overseas Chinese, Jews, Germans, Italians, Indians and others — to argue that the skills and habits a group carries predict its outcomes better than its treatment in the host country or its racial category. |
Race and Culture
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, March 2026, in the Capitalism, Morality, and Culture section, as its empirical case that culture is a real economic variable. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
About this edition
The method is explicitly comparative: the same group in different countries, and different groups in the same country.
Connections
- Culture — the explanatory variable.
- Immigration — the migrant histories the comparison rests on.
- Economics — the outcomes being explained.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.