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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

Nor was there any reference to the rising cost of living or the expanding economic disparities in access to healthcare, education, and housing. During his remarks, Powell referred to economics as “the science of public policy.” But this exclusionary perspective is precisely the problem.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. A 1996 political science journal article, for example, argued that policies were most likely to be effective in addressing race and economic inequality if they were targeted to benefit Black Americans but “advanced and defended on universalistic grounds.”