William darity jr. biography
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director.
William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. (born April 19, ) is an American economist and social scientist at Duke University..
William A. Darity Jr.
American economist (born )
William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. (born April 19, )[1] is an American economist and social scientist at Duke University.
Darity's research spans economic history, development economics, economic psychology, and the history of economic thought, but most of his research is devoted to group-based inequality, especially with respect to race and ethnicity.[2] His paper in the Journal of Economics and Finance[3] established Darity as the "founder of stratification economics."[4][5][6] His varied research interests have also included the trans-Atlantic slave trade, African American reparations and the economics of black reparations, and social and economic policies that affect inequities by race and ethnicity.[7] For the latter, he has been described as "perhaps the country’s leading scholar on the economics of racial inequality."[8]
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