{"id":131580,"date":"2020-06-11T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131580"},"modified":"2020-06-11T08:51:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:51:54","slug":"economics-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131580","title":{"rendered":"Economics Is Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/10\/business\/economy\/white-economists-black-lives-matter.html\">From the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Economics has a history of discrimination and, in some cases, outright racism. George Stigler, a Nobel laureate and an early leader of the American Economic Association, criticized the civil rights movement in 1962 and wrote that African-Americans\u2019 disadvantages in the labor market stemmed in part from their \u201cinferiority as a worker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLacking education, lacking a tenacity of purpose, lacking a willingness to work hard, he will not be an object of employers\u2019 competition,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Few scholars today would use such language. But the ideas persist: Economics journals are still filled with papers that emphasize differences in education, upbringing or even IQ rather than discrimination or structural barriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: Economics has a history of discrimination and, in some cases, outright racism. George Stigler, a Nobel laureate and an early leader of the American Economic Association, criticized the civil rights movement in 1962 and wrote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=131580\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131583,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131580\/revisions\/131583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}