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2002 MEETINGS & SESSIONS
Review of Black Political Economy - Board Meeting
Business Ownership by Minorities and Women
Roundtable: Achieving Diversity in a Slow Growth Economy
Racial Inequality in the US Political Economy
ING, Inc. Reception, Northern Atlanta
Rhonda M. Williams Retrospective Roundtable
Home Ownership, Asset Accumulation, Black Banks and Wealth in African American Communities
NEA Business Meeting, Dissertation Award, and Presidential Address
Africa and the African Diaspora: Economic and Financial Relations
Reparations, Discrimination and Public Policy in Agriculture
Title: Review of Black Political Economy - Board Meeting
Presiding: Thomas D. Boston (Georgia Technical University)
Location: Hilton - Rockdale
Title: NEA Executive Board Meeting
Presiding: Kaye Husbands Fealing (Williams College)
Location: Hilton - Rockdale
Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM—NEA Session
Session Title: Business-ownership by Minorities and Women
Presiding: Andrew Brimmer (Brimmer & Company and University of Massachusetts – Amherst)
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
Margaret C. Simms (Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies)
“Trends in Women-Owned Business”
Raul Moncarz (Florida International University)
“Trends in Hispanic Business Ownership”
Thomas D. Boston (Georgia Institute of Technology)
“Trends in Business Ownership by African Americans”
Paul Ong (University of California – Los Angeles)
“Trends in the Ownership of Asian Owned Business”
Andrew Brimmer (Brimmer & Company and University of Massachusetts – Amherst)
“Trends and Impact of Diversification in Business Ownership”
Discussants:
Lisa Saunders (University of Massachusetts – Amherst)
Richard Santos (University of New Mexico)
Lucy Reuben (South Carolina State University)
Friday, January 4, 10:15 AM—NEA/IRRA Session
Session Title: Roundtable: Achieving Diversity in a Slow Growth Economy
Presiding: Bernard E. Anderson (University of Pennsylvania) and Jeff Wheeler (President, Washington, D.C. Chapter, Industrial Relations Research Association)
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
William Spriggs (National Urban League)
Fred Fernandez (United Parcel Service)
Linda Tomasco (Rutgers University)
Willie Baker (United Food and Commercial Workers Union)
Bernard E. Anderson (University of Pennsylvania)
Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM—NEA Session
Session Title: Racial Inequality in the U.S. Political Economy
Presiding: Mark D. Turner (Johns Hopkins University)
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
Bobby Sinclair (Syracuse University)
“Revised Productivity Levels: New and Revised Convergence or Redistribution”
William Rodgers (College of William & Mary) and Stephanie Boraas (College of William & Mary),
“Gender Earnings Gap”
Charles Betsy (Howard University) and James Stewart (Pennsylvania State University)
“Racial Discrimination in Sentencing African-Americans”
Romie Tribble (Spelman College)
“Does the S-Curve Differ Across Racial, Ethnic and Class Identification in the US Economy?”
Discussants:
Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena (University of South Florida)
Darrick Hamilton (Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Fellow, Yale University and Georgia State University)
Gary Dymski (University of California – Riverside)
Friday, January 4, 6:30 PM - 9:30PM
Session Title: ING, Inc. Reception, hosted by Danny Boston and Catherine Ross
Location: Northern Atlanta, click here for directions
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Transportation will be provided. The first pick-up will depart the main entrance to the Hilton Hotel at 6:00 pm (accommodations for 44 persons). The second pick-up will depart the main entrance to the Hilton Hotel at 7:15 pm (also accommodations for 44 persons). Returning transportation will start at 9:00 pm.
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Food and refreshments will be served
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Please RSVP at (404) 760-8561 or tdb@mindspring.com.
Saturday, January 5, 8:00 AM—NEA Session
Session Title: Rhonda M. Williams Retrospective Roundtable
Presiding: Jessica Gordon Nembhard (University of Maryland)
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
Gary Dymski (University of California – Riverside) and Jessica Gordon Nembhard (University of Maryland – College Park and Preamble Center), “Rhonda M. Williams: Competition, Race, Agency, and Community”
Julianne Malveaux (Last Word Productions, Inc.), “Speaking Truth to Power: Race, Class, Gender, and the Intersection.”
William A. Darity, Jr. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University), "On the Irrelevance of Culture in Economic Analysis".
Mathew Forstater (University of Missouri, Kansas City), “Black Feminist Marxist Political Economy in a White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy: Rhonda M. Williams on Method, Theory, History, and Policy"
M.V. Lee Badgett (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), “Notes on Combining Race, Gender, Class, and Sexual Orientation to Understand Economic Inequality”
Heather Boushey (Economic Policy Institute), “Rethinking Labor Force Participation, Employment, and Wages along the Lines of Gender, Race, and Class: the Home Production Replace Goods and Services Index”
William Spriggs, Jr. (National Urban League) and Valerie Rawlston (National Urban League)
“Updating the Spriggs-Williams Logit Measure of Occupational Segregation: A Look at the 1990s.”
Patrick Mason (Florida State University), “Rhonda Williams and the Janus Face of Race.”
Saturday, January 5, 10:15 AM—NEA Session
Session Title: Poverty and Growth in Africa
Presiding: Ngina Chiteji (Skidmore College)
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
Richard Agesa (Marshall University)
“Ethnicity, Tribalism, and Nepotism in Africa: A Revisit”
Leonce Ndikumana (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
“Capital account and exchange rate regime shifts in Africa: Linkages with economic performance”
Sylvain Boko (Wake Forest University)
“Economic Freedom, Democracy and Economic Growth in Africa: An Institutional Approach”
N. Gregory Price (North Carolina A & T University and National Science Foundation) and Abera Gelan (Alverno College)
“Poverty and Economic Growth in Africa”
Mwangi wa Githinji (Florida Atlanta University)
“Neighbors, Class and Poverty: The role of social capital in determining the poverty status of Rural Households in Kenya”
Discussants:
Eiman Zein-Elabdin (Franklin and Marshall College)
Ngina Chiteji (Skidmore College)
William A. Darity, Jr. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University)
Patrick Mason (Florida State University)
Saturday, January 5, 2:30 PM—AEA/NEA Session
Session Title: Home Ownership, Asset Accumulation, Black Banks and Wealth in African American CommunitiesPresiding: Darrick Hamilton (Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Fellow, Yale University and Georgia State University)
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
Christopher C. Henderson (MBNA America Bank, N.A.)
“Do Black Banks Impact the Communities they Service? Empirical Evidence from the Mortgage Market”
Lance Freeman (Columbia University) and Darrick Hamilton (Yale University)
“A Dream Deferred or Realized: The Impact of Public Policy on Fostering Non-White Homeownership in New York City Throughout the 1990s”
Jessica Gordon Nembhard (Preamble Center and University of Maryland – College Park)
“How Cooperative Ownership of Businesses and Homes Contributes to Wealth Accumulation in African American Communities: Preliminary Analysis”
Ronald Straight (Howard University)
“Wealth: Asset Accumulation Differences by Race - SCF Data, 1995 and 1998"
Discussants:
Samuel L. Myers, Jr. (University of Minnesota)
Ngina Chiteji (Skidmore College)
James B. Stewart (Pennsylvania State University)
William Darity, Jr. (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and Duke University)
Saturday, January 5, 5:30PM - 7:00PM
Title: NEA Business Meeting, Dissertation Award, and Presidential Address
Presiding: Kaye Husbands Fealing (William College)
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
Saturday, January 5, 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Title: NEA Reception
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
Light buffet
Sunday, January 6, 8:00 AM—NEA Session
Session Title: Africa and the African Diaspora: Economic and Financial Relations
Presiding: Patrick Asea (Economic Commission for Africa)
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
Temisan Agbeyegbe (Hunter College, City University of New York)
“Portfolio Capital Inflows: Evidence from Emerging Markets”
William Amponsah (North Carolina A & T University)
“The Impact of WTO on Africa”
K. Gyimah-Brempong (University of South Florida) and R. Mark Wilson (University of South Florida)
“Human Capital and Economic Growth: Is Africa Different?”
Discussants:
Lemma Senbett (University of Maryland)
Hassan Ali (Ohio State University)
Leonard Wanchikon (Yale University)
Fekru Debebe (Educational Testing Service)
Sunday, January 6, 10:15 AM—NEA Session
Session Title: Reparations, Discrimination and Public Policy in Agriculture
Presiding: Richard F. America (Georgetown University)
Location: Hilton - Gwinnett
Lionel Williamson (Kentucky University) and Handy Williamson (University of Tennessee)
“Income and Wealth Transfer Effects of Discrimination in Private Lending and Equity Investment in the Rural South”
Donald McDowell (North Carolina A & T University)
“The Redistributive Effects of Chronic Black Poverty in the Rural South”
Adelle Brown, Jr. (Southern University)
“Income and Wealth Transfer Effects of Employment Discrimination in Federal, State, County and Local Economic Development Programs in the Rural South”
Ralph Christy (Cornell University) and Kenneth Robinson (Cornell University)
“Income and Wealth Transfer Effects of Inequities Caused by Barriers to Entry Caused by Structural Changes in Southern Agriculture”
Spencer Wood (University of Wisconsin) and Jess Gilbert (University of Wisconsin)
“Discrimination Against Black Farmers - Who benefits? How Much?”
Discussants:
TBA