The gang return this week with a special episode devoted the issue of diversity in economics, specifically Black representation and the fields relative silence in the face of upheavals we've seen this summer

Rowan talks us through some of the survey research around the state of the field, and Warren sits down with Fadekemi Abiru - a female black economist and data scientist working in the UK - to discuss the issues and effects of Black representation in economics, bringing to life her own work informing social policy, and highlighting the great work of the Black Economists Network (TBEN) to expand representation and influence within the field.

Fadekemi shouts out to Raj Chetty's impactful data charts: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/01/11/raj-chetty-in-14-charts-big-findings-on-opportunity-and-mobility-we-should-know/As well as Mariana Mazzucato: https://marianamazzucato.com/

Be sure to follow TBEN:https://twitter.com/TheBlackEcon_https://www.instagram.com/theblackecon_/https://www.tben.co.uk/

Fadekemi writes for...Stears Business: https://republic.com.ng/author/f-abiru/Republic: https://republic.com.ng/author/f-abiru/

Articles on Black representation and diversity in economics:https://qz.com/1492283/economics-has-a-crisis-of-diversity/https://www.newsweek.com/economists-silence-racism-100-years-making-opinion-1509790https://twitter.com/itsafronomics/status/1266714711913107456https://www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/economics-after-slavery-and-george-floydhttps://fortune.com/2020/06/19/black-economists-fixing-systemic-racism-juneteenth/https://www.res.org.uk/resources-page/economics-has-a-diversity-problem-starting-at-school-and-university-new-discovereconomics-campaign-launched.html

Also check out our podcast with Ifeoma Ozuma about her experience of discrimination, the importance of her work at Pinterest, and why diversity is so important to innovation and progress https://soundcloud.com/connectedanddisaffected/ep33-raj-final

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