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Currently senior writer for Australian Financial Review. Trevor Sykes has edited both The Bulletin and ABM, created the longstanding Pierpont column in the Financial Review and the The Bulletin, and is author of The Money Miners and Operation Dynasty: How Warwick Took John Fairfax Ltd as well as Two Centuries of Panic.
?This is an interesting book. David Schwartzman uses an eclectic combination of ideas to argue that black unemployment is especially high because black workers are especially likely to be unskilled....The strength of Schwartzman's book is his concern with the well-being of unskilled workers. This perspective gives him a critical insight into the unbalanced effects or economic growth, such as its propensity to generate unemployment as well as employment. It also creates a coherent political perspective which cannnot be neatly categorized as left or right. He is critical of immigration, affirmative action, free trade, investment incentives, liberal social policies and public school monopolies. He supports public works programs, trade barriers, more spending on schooling, and vouchers. Whether or not he is right, it is a perspective deserving wide currency in these politically fractured times.?-Eastern Economic Journal
