Preferential Policies: An International Perspective.

First edition of this cross-cultural, economic, and historical analysis examining government-mandated preferential treatment. Octavo, original publisher's half-cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to law professor Marc Galanter on the front free endpaper, "To Marc Galanter with best wishes from Thomas Sowell." The recipient, Marc Galanter, is Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Honorary Professor of Law at the National Law University Delhi, widely recognized for his contributions to socio-legal studies and South Asian legal scholarship. His book, Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India (1984), is citied several times by Sowell in chapter four of Preferential Policies. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Gatti.