Critical Issues Facing America: Selected Essays from a Black Economist, 2016–2025

Author:   Fred McKinney
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
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9783031932168


Pages:   182
Publication Date:   29 December 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Critical Issues Facing America: Selected Essays from a Black Economist, 2016–2025


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This book analyzes nuances and shifts in the scarcity of resources across food, energy, housing, and healthcare in the United States between 2016 and 2025. Written by Fred McKinney, the book provides a chronological exploration of cultural moments that impacted macroeconomic policy in the United States during this period. The chapters in the book cover a range of important topics, including racial wealth gaps, crime, minority business development, sustainability, corporate supplier diversity, education policy, culture, and war.  

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Author:   Fred McKinney
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031932168


ISBN 10:   3031932161
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   29 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- The Critical Isses Economics and Race.- Black Wealth and Black and Minority Business Development.- Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Policy and Issues.

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Fred McKinney is the cofounder of BJM Solutions, LLC, an economic consulting firm specializing in supplier diversity and minority business development. Before earning his PhD in economics from Yale University, he was a junior economist for Carter's White House Council of Economic Advisers. McKinney served as an assistant professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School, later joining the University of Connecticut as a full-time assistant professor. Between 2001 and 2015, McKinney served as CEO of the New England Minority Supplier Development Council. He subsequently became Managing Director of MBE Executive Education at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. Between 2018 and 2021, he was Carlton Highsmith Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Quinnipiac University. McKinney is a columnist for Hearst Newspapers.

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