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Timberly Walker
Title: “Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and
Jamal”
Author: Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan
Title: “The dirty secret of capitalism—and a new way forward”
Author: Eldar Shafir
Thesis: People with black sounding names are more likely to be
unemployed and less likely to get a call back or interview than
someone with a white sounding name.
Thesis: People of the lower class are both time and money
poor
Supporting Evidence:
• “…African Americans face differential treatment when
searching for jobs and this may still be a factor in why they do
poorly in the labor market” (Bertrand and Mullainathan, p.
366).
Supporting Evidence:
• It’s the people that make it bad, not the system
• Neoeconimc theory is false and “there is no
equilibrium…raising wages doesn’t kill jobs, it creates them…”
(Hanauer)
