Lisa Cook on Gender and Race in Economics (Podcast)
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Lisa Cook, a professor in the department of economics and in international relations at Michigan State University. As the first Marshall Scholar from Spelman College, she received a second B.A. from Oxford University before earning her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and has held positions or conducted research at the National Bureau of Economic Research; the Federal Reserve banks of Minneapolis, New York and Philadelphia; and the World Bank. In 2019, she was elected to serve on the executive committee of the American Economic Association, where she is director of the AEA Summer Training Program.
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| 0:52.0 | Hey, this week on the podcast, I have a special guest. |
| 0:55.0 | Her name is Lisa Cook and she is an economist who has done some absolutely fascinating research |
| 1:03.0 | on all sorts of really interesting things. |
| 1:05.0 | Patents, innovation, gender, race and equality, just really, really fascinating. |
| 1:13.0 | Normally when I prep for an interview, I go in kind of knowing a lot about the person, |
| 1:20.0 | and maybe I'll find one or two little interesting tidbits to ask them. |
| 1:25.0 | But as I'm doing the research and working off of some of the questions that Batnik got to me, |
| 1:31.0 | we ended up finding these really amazing research papers that she put together. |
| 1:38.0 | Some stuff that just the data is shocking, and it's amazing that nobody thought to even look at this. |
| 1:46.0 | Before she found out that the number of African-American women who were earning their PhD |
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