Upon his retirement, Cornell College bestowed upon Professor Tony deLaubenfels the rank of Professor Emeritus. The college’s dean asked me, the chairman of the department in which Tony teaches, to write a letter of commendation to accompany the award. In my letter, I described some of Tony’s important contributions to our college and thanked him…
Month: August 2020
Who pays the cost of discrimination?
Suppose that there are just two groups of people from which employers can recruit employees. The two groups are identical in every respect except two. In the first case, the people in Group B work for a lower wage than do the members of Group A. In the second case, the people in the two…