For the first time in the 20th century, the majority of adults in the inner cities are not working. In an important and long-awaited study, one of the country’s leading sociologists, the acclaimed author of The Truly Disadvantaged, analyzes the disappearance of work and its effects on the inner city of Chicago.An unofficial adviser to President Bill Clinton, Wilson has become a celebrity of sorts. A former University of Chicago professor, Wilson–currently on staff at Harvard–has been profiled in The New Yorker and dubbed one of America’s most influential people by Time magazine. A respected thinker on issues of race and poverty, the author of The Declining Significance of Race and The Truly Disadvantaged offers his take on welfare and inner-city joblessness in When Work Disappears. Racism, Wilson argues, plays increasingly less of a role in urban problems. More significant, he claims, are changes in the global economy and the disappearance of unskilled but decent-paying jobs near cities; according to Wilson, these factors have deprived the urban working class of steady jobs, destroyed inner-city businesses, and caused younger, upwardly mobile residents to flee for the suburbs.

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Freedomnomics is everything you wanted to know about the world but didn’t know economics could tell you. Economist and bestselling author John Lott shows the logic of free market economics through clear and hard-hitting examples.

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