Episode 162: Wealth Gap (live at Georgia Law)

Audiobooks, capital, banks, slavery, regulation, choice, racism, and the racial wealth gap. Mehrsa Baradaran joins the show for the fourth time to talk about her latest book. Recorded in front of a live audience at the University of Georgia School of Law.

This show’s links:

Mehrsa Baradaran’s faculty profile and academic writing

Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Barack Obama, The President's Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform

Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Eric Foner, Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (see also Eric Foner, Why Reconstruction Matters (a brief but informative opinion essay))

Oral Argument 76: Brutality (guest Al Brophy)

Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

Alfred Brophy, Reparations: Pro and Con

William Darity, Jr. and Dania Frank, The Economics of Reparations

Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion, Reconstruction (a podcast from Slate)

Special Guest: Mehrsa Baradaran.