Listen: Professor Mason interview on the Lever Time podcast with host David Sirota discussing the Federal Reserve’s ideology behind inflation targeting
Read: “Fed Can’t Fix What’s Driving Inflation. But It Can Start a Recession” on Barron’s
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Q&A with Alum Lauren Melodia of the Roosevelt Institute
An interview of alum Lauren Melodia, the Deputy Director of Macroeconomic Analysis of the Roosevelt Institute on her work.
Paul E. William’s Article on Publicly Owned Grocery Stores
Click Here to read Paul E. William’s article on the Chicago Sun Times about ending food deserts with public grocery stores.
Watch: Video of the Amazon Labor Union Panel on Organizing at John Jay College on May 6th 2022
Listen: Professor Mason on Inflation and its Implications on Labor
Professor J.W. Mason interview with Belabored podcast on inflation and what it means for labor and organizing.
AEA Continues to Silence Black Women
Earlier this week the American Economic Association (AEA) honored four economists as distinguished fellows, including the first ever posthumously awarded Distinguished Fellow, Sadie Alexander. Alexander was the first Black Woman to earn a PhD in Economics in 1921 but was forced to quit being an economist because there were no job prospects at all for a Black economist woman. Sadie Alexander became a lawyer and continued to fight, write, and talk against class and racial oppression and inequality. Professor Nina Banks did extensive archival work to publish the book of Alexander’s writings and speeches: Democracy, Race, and Justice which was published 100 years after she received her PhD.
When the American Economics Association honored Sadie Alexander this week they did so by not citing and plagiarizing Professor Bank’s research. That the AEA honors its own tradition as economists as servants of power instead of economics as serving humanity it is only appropriate that they honor a silenced Black woman economist by silencing a current Black woman economist. Here is a letter by Professor Nina Banks discussing what the AEA did and included is also a video of Nina Banks talking about Sadie Alexander at John Jay College in 2015.
Thank you Nina Banks for unearthing Sadie Alexander for all of us and shame on the AEA!
