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Dr. Loretta Mester Highlights Racial Disparities in Economics in Department Guest Lecture

Dr. Loretta Mester’s views, as represented in this article and her lecture, are her own and not reflective of her affiliated institutions.…

April 24, 2021
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The Invisible Hand Doesn’t Work: Underrepresentation in Economics is a Market Failure

Nationwide, the field of economics, being overwhelmingly comprised of middle class, caucasian men to the extreme exclusion of other class, racial, and…

March 5, 2020
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Wilcox Lecturer Shares Merits of Social Democracy

Last Tuesday, students and faculty filled Sci 101 for the Department of Economics’s Wilcox lecture. The Wilcox lecture series is named for…

October 31, 2019
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The Book and Key Society: March 14th, 1918

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall…

March 20, 2018
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The Book and Key Society: February 28, 2018

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall…

February 28, 2018

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