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An oft heard complaint is that there is a digital divide: that some racial, ethnic and gender groupings have more than their fair share of access to computers than others. Commentators who articulate this perspective offer as solutions to this problem the subsidization of such technology for those who are supposedly underprivileged in it. The present paper denies that there is any such problem in need of rectification.
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Dr. Walter Block (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1972) is the Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics at the College of Business Administration, Loyola University New Orleans, and a member of the Senior Faculty at the Mises Institute. He is the author of Defending the Undefendable and of almost 200 articles in refereed journals.
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Block, W. The “digital divide” is not a problem in need of rectifying. J Bus Ethics 53, 393–406 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03327479
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03327479