UPDATED Oct. 12: Kirsten Mullen, co-author with William A. Darity Jr. of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, will join Darity in presenting the webinar on Oct. 15.
William A. Darity Jr. will discuss reparations on Oct. 15, and Tomáš Sedláček will present about “Economics of Good and Evil” on Oct. 8, in the final fall-semester webinars presented by UNC Asheville’s Department of Economics, the Cary Caperton Owen Professorship in Economics, and the student Economics Club. These events are free and open to everyone via Zoom.
Thursday, Oct. 8, Noon
- Tomáš Sedláček, chief macroeconomic strategist at the Czech commercial bank CSOB and the author of Economics of Good and Evil: the Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street will present.
- Pre-registration is required at this link:
https://unca-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GXgbc7xVRVqKqsGIJA0OgA
Thursday, Oct. 15, 7 p.m.
- William A. Darity Jr., co-author of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, will present. Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University and has been interviewed and recently quoted in on the subject of a national reparations plan, in media including National Public Radio, CNBC, History News Network, Time Magazine, and others. He also has expressed comments critical of the City of Asheville’s recent move toward some form of reparations in the Asheville Citizen-Times, The New York Times and ABC News.
- Pre-registration is required at this link:
https://unca-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r5zd2mIvS-Ov-Y1fw4a0MQ
For more information, please contact Robert C. Tatum, UNC Asheville Cary Caperton Owen Distinguished Professor in Economics, at rtatum@unca.edu.
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