National Economic Association

NewsLetter - January 2005

It's Official

Robert S. Browne died Friday, August 6, 2004. Dr. Browne was one of the founders of the Caucus of Black Economists, the predecessor organization to the National Economic Association, and had a distinguished and creative career including founding the Black Economic Research Center in New York, the Emergency Land Fund designed to slow the loss of black owned land in the South, and the Review of Black Political Economy, among many other accomplishments, not to mention a long list of very significant articles on economics published in a wide variety of sources.  Click here are his biography.

Rucker Johnson recently joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, as an Assistant Professor. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 2002, where his training focused on areas of applied microeconomics. He was honored to be the recipient of three national dissertation awards: APPAM dissertation award, Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award, and National Economics Association Dissertation Award. Rucker has been a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at the University of Michigan for the past two years. His research emphasizes issues of poverty and inequality in the fields of labor, urban, and health economics.

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