What do people study when they study economics? How has studying economics changed in the last 200 years? Why aren’t students learning about this history? And how is the women’s liberation movement related to racial justice in economics? Join host Dean Brian Edwards and Gary Hoover, Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University, as they discuss these questions and more in this episode of Anti-Racism and the Disciplines.

Timestamps:

• [00:52 - 03:47] What is economics? When does it emerge as a field?

• [03:47 - 05:24] How important is the history of economics to economists?

• [05:24 - 06:46] Why do we consider economics a social science?

• [06:46 - 08:43] Does it matter to economics that it emerged at the same time as colonialism?

• [08:43 - 11:30] What's the problem with how economics has developed as a field?

• [11:30 - 15:21] How does the emphasis on math in economics impact the discipline?

• [15:21 - 17:50] What's the problem with economic models in the 20th century?

• [17:50 - 20:18] How does race begin to get addressed in economics in the 70s and 80s?

• [20:18 - 22:14] When do we start seeing "mainstream" economics address issues of race?

• [22:14 - 23:26] What are the costs of racism to economics?

• [23:26 - 26:24] How can increase the presence and improve the experience of racial and ethnic minorities in economics?

• [26:24 - 29:46] What does anti-racism mean in economics?

• [29:46 - 32:45] What, if any, have been the ramifications of the 2020 protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder on economics as a discipline?

Host: Brian T. Edwards

Executive Producer: Gabriela Garcia Mayes

Music: Cory Diane

Production Assistant: Maggie Green

Special Thanks: Billy Saas