36. Should the Government be allowed to Engage in Racial, Sexual, or Other Acts of Discrimination?

36. SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT BE ALLOWED TO ENGAGE IN RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR OTHER ACTS OF DISCRIMINATION?

EXTANT LAW AND ITS COMPATIBILITY WITH THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION

A.

37. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Property Rights Perspective

37. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE: A PROPERTY RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE

EMPLOYERS OFTEN EXPRESS SUCH AN UNWARRANTED FEAR OF sexual harassment claims that they ignore the problem and hope that it will just go away and never happen in their workplace. This fear results from a lack of understanding of the nature of sexual harassment claims, confusion about the true meaning of untidy terms like “severe,” “hostile,” and “pervasive,” and ignorance of appropriate management steps to both prevent harassment in the workplace and provide for a legitimate defense to sexual harassment claims.

38. The Boy Scouts, Freedom of Association, and the Right to Discriminate: A Legal, Philosophical, and Economic Analysis

38. THE BOY SCOUTS, FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION, AND THE RIGHT TO DISCRIMINATE: A LEGAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

IN BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA V. DALE,1 THE SUPREME COURT WAS faced with one of the most contentious questions facing today’s society.

Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abbott Labs. v. Gardner, 387 U.S. 136 (1967).

Abedian, I. and Standish, B. 1985. “Poor Whites and the Role of the State: The Evidence.” South Africa Journal of Economics 52, no. 2 (June).

Adie, Douglas K. 1973. “Teen-Age Unemployment and Real Federal Minimum Wages.” Journal of Political Economy 81, no. 2, part 2 (March–April).

———. 1988. Monopoly Mail: Privatizing the United States Postal Service. New York: Transaction Publishers.

Name Index

NAME INDEX

Abedian, I., 126, 304

Altschiller, Donald

Armentano, Dominick, 276n14

Arroyo, Gloria, 179

Barnett, William, 42

Bebel, August, 268–69, 271–72

Bender, Ronald F., 60, 65–66

Bennett, Bill, 16

Blanco, Governor, 46

Block, Walter, 42, 98, 127, 129, 130, 146n, 150, 157n, 202, 217n, 223n, 266n, 283n17, 299–300, 304, 311n10, 314n18, 317, 322n

Boettke, Peter, 280

Subject Index

SUBJECT INDEX

Abbot Laboratories v. Gardners, 331–32

abortion, 303–04, 384

academic freedom, 302n26

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 12–13

ACT (American College Test), 322

advertising, 24–26

affirmative action. See also equal pay for equal work legislation

banking and, 107–8, 112–13

consequences of, 6–8, 77, 142–45, 202–03

government granted rights and, 134

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