Research on the presence of consumer racial discrimination in the baseball labor and memorabilia markets have produced contradictory empirical results. While studies of baseball salaries find evidence of discrimination, Nardinelli and Simon (1990) and Andersen and LaCroix (1991) use data from...

The failure of economic central planning in the Soviet Union is interpreted as evidence of the impossibility of efficient central planning. But the deficiencies of the Soviet economy might have resulted from other factors, such as Soviet history, culture, leadership, and/or unique circumstances,...