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Introduction to the Special Issue

The Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession (CSMGEP) sponsored a session at the January 2015 meetings of the Applied Social Sciences Associations, ‘‘Economic Freedom and Minority Groups.’’ The response to those papers was overwhelming, with many other authors wanting to make contributions to the topic. This special issue of Public Finance Review is the extension of that interest. These papers examine a wide range of issues in public economics, all of which focus on the relationship between economic freedom and race and ethnicity, especially the impacts of economic freedom on the incomes of racial and ethnic groups. The papers were submitted to Public Finance Review (without any guarantee of publication), went through the regular reviewing process, and were revised in response to comments by the anonymous, external reviewers. The papers cover many issues on economic freedom and its relationship to race and ethnicity as well as on other issues (e.g., religion) that also affect