William A. Darity Jr.

Sandy Darity
Darity in 2023
Born (1953-04-19) April 19, 1953 (age 71)
Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
EducationBrown University (BA)
London School of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA, PhD)
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics
Public economics
Economic stratification analysis
InstitutionUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Duke University
AwardsMarshall Scholar (1974)

William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. (born April 19, 1953)[1] is an American economist and social scientist at Duke University. Darity's research spans economic history, development economics, economic psychology, and the history of economic thought, but most of his research is devoted to group-based inequality, especially with respect to race and ethnicity.[2] His 2005 paper in the Journal of Economics and Finance[3] established Darity as the 'founder of stratification economics.'[4][5][6] His varied research interests have also included the trans-Atlantic slave trade, African American reparations and the economics of black reparations, and social and economic policies that affect inequities by race and ethnicity.[7] For the latter, he has been described as "perhaps the country’s leading scholar on the economics of racial inequality."[8]

He is currently the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University; he is also the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.[9][10] Previously he was the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of North Carolina.[11] Darity was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve's board of governors in 1984, and a fellow at the National Humanities Center (1989-1990), a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2011-2012), and a visiting senior fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation. For the 2022-2023 academic year, he is the Katherine Hampson Bessett Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute. He is also a former president of the National Economic Association (1986), the Southern Economic Association (1996),[12] and the Association of Black Sociologists (2015-2017).

  1. ^ "Darity, William A., jr., 1953-". Virtual International Authority File (VIAF). Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  2. ^ "Interview with William A Darity Jr | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis". www.minneapolisfed.org.
  3. ^ Darity, William (2005). "Stratification economics: The role of intergroup inequality". Journal of Economics and Finance. 29 (2): 144–153. doi:10.1007/BF02761550. S2CID 153470198.
  4. ^ "Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with William A. Darity Jr. ("Sandy") of Duke University". March 21, 2017.
  5. ^ "Sandy Darity has some thoughts about inequality". May 16, 2019.
  6. ^ Tanita Lewis; Nyamekye Asare; Benjamin Fields (2021). "Stratification Economics". Exploring Economics.
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  8. ^ "Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?". The New Yorker. September 3, 2021. Retrieved December 31, 2021.
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  10. ^ "Home - The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University". January 11, 2024.
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