Race, Liberalism, and Economics

About the Authors

About the Authors MARCELLUS ANDREWS is a professor of economics in the School of Public Affairs of Baruch College at the City University of New York. His research interests include macroeconomics, dynamics, crime and punishment , and analytical approaches to economic and social justice. He is the author of The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America (1999). He was a fellow at the Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University during the 1997-98 academic year. Professor Andrews has also taught at the University of Denver and at Wellesley College. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. DAVID COLANDER has been the Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics at Middlebury College in Vermont since 1982. In 2001-2 he visited Princeton as the Kelley Professor for Distinguished Teaching. He has authored, coauthored, or edited over thirty-five books and over one hundred articles on a wide range of topics. These include Principles of Economics (5th ed. 2004); History of Economic Thought, with Harry Landreth, (4th ed. 2002); Why Aren't Economists as Important as Garbagemen? (1991); MAP: A Market Anti-inflation Plan, with Abba Lerner (1980); and his edited volume The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics (2000). He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1976 and has served as a Brookings Policy Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College , Oxford. He is listed in Who's Who, Who's Who in Education, and others . He has been on the board of numerous economic societies and has been president of the Eastern Economic Association and History of Economic Thought Society. He is or has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the Journal ofEconomic Methodology , the Eastern Economic Journal, the Journal ofEconomic Education, and 309 310 AUTHORS the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He is also series editor, with Mark Blaug, of the Twentieth-Century Economists series of Edward Elgar Publishers . WI L LI AM A. (SANDY) DARIT YJR. is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a half-time research professor of public policy studies at Duke University. He has published numerous articles on inequality by race, class, and ethnicity . His research interests also include North-South theories of development and trade and the history of economic thought and political economy . His most recent book, edited with Ashwini Deshpande, is entitled Boundaries ofClass and Color (2003). Professor Darity received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. V ANITA GOWDA received an M.A. in public administration, with a focus on urban policy, from Columbia University in 2002. For several years, she worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., where she wrote about federal and local policy issues for publications including Congressional Quarterly and Governing magazine. She currently works in health communications. DAVID M. LEVY is a professor of economics at George Mason University . He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago with a dissertation entitled "The Content of Classical Economics." His first publications in the history of economics were on misrepresentations of classical economics : "Ricardo and the Iron Law" (1976) and "Some Normative Aspects of the Malthusian Controversy" (1978) in History ofPolitical Economy . His first study of the Romantic critics of classical economics is "S. T. Coleridge Responds to Adam Smith's Pernicious Opinion: A Study In Hermetic Social Engineering" in Interpretation (1986). The 2001 article "How the Dismal Science Got Its Name" in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought was awarded the prize of Best Article of the Year by the History of Economics Society. As an econometrician, Levy specializes in estimation in nonideal conditions, especially when the researcher has preferences over estimates. He serves on the American Statistical Association 's Committee on Professional Ethics and wonders why there is no code of ethics in econometrics. His joint work with Sandra Peart on "Galton 's papers on Voting as Robust Estimators" appeared in Public Choice (2002). Their essay "Statistical Prejudice: From Eugenics to Immigrants" appeared in the European Journal of Political Economy (2003). Their essay Authors 311 "Denying Homogeneity" appeared in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2003). Their book Classical Economics and the Cattle Herders: From the "Vanity of the Philosopher" to Eugenic Central Planning is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press. GLENN...