Competition, Coercion, and African American Economic Progress in the Work of Robert Higgs

Published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Art Carden (chapter 1) explores how Bob's scholarship, from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s, changed how we understand American racial history, labor history, and institutional history. He notes that Bob's work influenced how people thought about a range of issues-labor market discrimination, the effect of the boll weevil on the Southern economy, and African American economic agency-through his emphasis on commercial economic agency and competition.

Find this chapter in The Legacy of Robert Higgs, available on Amazon.