The Moral Burden on Economists: Darrick Hamilton's 2017 NEA Presidential Address

In: The review of black political economy: analyzing policy prescriptions designed to reduce inequalities, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 331-342

Abstract

In his 2017 presidential address to the National Economic Association (NEA), Professor Darrick Hamilton warned that treating economics as a morally neutral "science," and the discipline's limited attention to structural barriers and overemphasis individual agency, has resulted in bad economics, and bad policy particularly as it relates to racial disparity.