ABSTRACT
William Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, where he is also Professor of Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies. Previously he has held a number of other positions, including with the University of North Carolina; University of Maryland, College Park. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Brown University and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His main research interests centre on inequality, race, education, segregation, and “stratification economics”, including policy to address these problems. He has published 12 books, including Persistent Disparity: Race and Economic Inequality in the United States Since 1945 and What's Left of the Economic Theory of Discrimination?. He has also published over 200 articles in leading journals such as the American Economic Review , American Sociological Review , Journal of Economic Perspectives , Journal of Economic Psychology , and World Development.
