In his book Forbidden Grounds, University of Chicago Professor Richard Epstein argues that federal employment antidiscrimination laws ought to be abolished. [Reading Westmont College economist Edd Noell’s paper

“Racial Discrimination, Police Power and the 1964 Civil Rights Act in Richard Epstein’s Forbidden Grounds: An Evaluation of The Case Against Discrimination Laws”

(available on the web at ACE, www.gordon.edu/ace) will be helpful in answering this question.]

a. How might a Christian economist evaluate the need for federal laws prohibiting racial discrimination?

b. Why should a Christian economist think more carefully than another economist about the relation between economic liberty and tolerance of the taste for discrimination? (Religious)