William Darity

Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics,Duke University

William A. Darity Jr. served as director of the Institute of African American Research, director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, director of the Undergraduate Honors Program in economics, and director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina.

Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, doctrinal history and the social psychological effects of unemployment exposure.)

He was a fellow at the National Humanities Center(1989-90) and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors (1984). He is a past president of the National Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association. He has taught at Grinnell College, the University of Maryland at College Park, the Universityof Texas at Austin, Simmons College and Claremont-McKennaCollege. He is Editor in Chief of new edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, (Macmillan Reference, 2008.)

His most recent books are Economics, Economists, and Expectations: Microfoundations to Macroapplications (2004) (co-authored with Warren Young and Robert Leeson) and a volume co-edited with Ashwini Deshpande titled Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity (2003) both published by Routledge. He has published or edited 10 books and more than 125 articles in professional journals.

Issues: Anti-Poverty programs, Economic Mobility, Economic Theory, Economy and Race, Healthcare, Keynes v. Friedman, Medicare/Medicaid, Middle Class, Social Investment, Social Security, US Infrastructure, Welfare, Workforce Development

Experience:

• President, National Economic Association
• President, Southern Economic Association
• Director, Institute of African American Research, University of North Carolina
• Director, Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, University of North Carolina
• Director, Undergraduate Honors Program in Economics,
University of North Carolina Director, Graduate Studies, University of North Carolina
• Fellow, National Humanities Center
• Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve, Board of Governors