Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality

The Editors: Samuel L. Myers, Jr. is the Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice at the Hubert H. Humphrey Insititute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. He is former president of the National Economic Association (NEA) and of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). His most recent books are Crime Control and Social Justice (2003) with Darnell F. Hawkins and Randolph N. Stone, Faculty of Color in Academe (2000) with Caroline Turner and Persistent Disparity (1998) with William A. Darity, Jr. He received his Ph.D. in economics from MIT and his undergraduate degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.Bruce Corrie is Professor of Economics at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame. He was appointed by Governor Jesse Ventura to chair the Governor's Working Group on Minority Business Development, which produced the first comprehensive report on strategies to tap into the emerging domestic markets in Minnesota. His views have appeared on various mainstream media outlets and the ethnic press. He is founding editor of the International Policy Review, was a member of the editorial board of Social Indicators Research, and author of numerous articles in popular and academic journals. He is founding editor of a new online journal www.policybriefs.org, which provides diverse perspectives on policy issues.