HES highlight last wk: African American economists/issues panel with Prof Guy Numa.

Thanks to Numa & Darity Jr for including paper I wrote with Rebeca Gomez Betancourt/Marianne Johnson and for helping us w clues to more African American econs. Numa's work on W.E. Du Bois is worth read in JEL.

Roundtable at @iaffofficial.bsky.social on my new book: Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History (Cambridge University Press). Thank you for the discussion @rgbetancourt.bsky.social @yanarodgers.bsky.social Nancy Folbre and Mariel Gruppi

Plenary experts @IAFFE summarising impact of US executive direction on dismantling of laws/infrastructure re. higher ed accreditation, migration, trans & civil rights, USAID research, reproduction, disaster warning, DHS data etc. Opportunities for country-led data collection, local solidarity econ.

Very happy to be here for the first plenary of the International Association for Feminist Economics conference in Amherst, Massachussetts @iaffe.bsky.social

Working in the archives over the last week at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri. Will be here across the next week, too. Thanks to the library for a research grant that helped make it happen!

My conversation with Dennis Venter from @queerecon.bsky.social and Rethinking Economics, on how Queer Economics emerged historically, as part of a longer history of family economics.
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My book will be out in May! Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History, with Cambridge University Press's book series "Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics". See here for more details: www.cambridge.org/au/universit...