A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9780415095907 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 336 str.

Thomas D. Boston

Opis

Bringing together the ideas, philosophies and interpretations of North America's leading African American economists, the study is presented in two volumes. Volume One includes an in-depth discussion of the economics of race and gender and assesses the contribution and influence of major African American economists and economic philosophies. The work also features an examination of racism within the economics profession. Volume Two focuses on issues of poverty, racial inequality and public policy, along with a detailed analysis of the theory and method which underlie them. The volumes draw the conclusion that racial inequality has had an immense impact in every sphere of African American life. As a result, African American economists do indeed have a different vision.

Spis treści

1 EDITOR’S NOTES 2 PREAMBLE: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: SUMMARY OF SELECTED RESEARCH Part I Race, gender, and economics 3 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN AS SCHOLAR, ECONOMIST AND ACTIVIST 4 THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF OPPRESSION AND ITS NEGATION OF COLOR BLIND REMEDIES: RACE CONSCIOUSNESS, RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER 5 BLACK WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: A CRITICAL ESSAY 6 MISSED OPPORTUNITY: SADIE TANNER MOSSELL ALEXANDER AND THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION 7 TILTING AGAINST THE WIND: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR PHYLLIS ANN WALLACE 8 PROLEGOMENON INTO RACE AND ECONOMICS Part II The economic philosophers and their vision 9 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BLACK EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1880–1915 10 WHY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON WAS RIGHT: A RECONSIDERATION OF THE ECONOMICS OF RACE 11 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: MYTH MAKER 12 GEORGE EDMUND HAYNES AND THE OFFICE OF NEGRO ECONOMICS 13 SOUNDINGS AND SILENCES ON RACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE: ABRAM HARRIS, Jr. IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION 14 FORMULATING THE NEGATION: ABRAM HARRIS, Jr. AS CRITIC 15 THE POLITICAL ECONOMIC THOUGHT OF OLIVER C. COX 16 FROM THE NEW DEAL TO THE GREAT SOCIETY: THE ECONOMIC ACTIVISM OF ROBERT C. WEAVER

O autorze

Thomas D. Boston is Professor of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is editor of The Review of Black Political Economy. He previously served as a Senior Economist to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and was President of the National Economic Association. He has lectured and published widely on issues of race and economics.