Economics of Race
Investigating race as a driver of economic destiny.
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Obama’s People and The African Americans: The Language of Othering
Language has always been a way to divide, conquer, classify, and control, but it also helps to constitute who we are and what we think.
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Why Can’t Economics See Race?
Theoretical dogmas that are literally blind to the causes of the racism that determines the economic fates of most African-Americans leaves the economics profession unable to comprehend or recognize remedies for a key driver of America’s crippling inequality. Instead, conventional economic models unmindfully shape policies that actually exacerbate racial conflict.
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Here’s What Economists Don’t Understand About Race
William Darity, Jr. has a new key to unlocking the mystery of inequality: stratification economics.