Money Talks: The Alexander technique (update)
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The Economist
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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A hundred years ago, Sadie Alexander became the first African American to receive a PhD in economics and then spent a career fighting racial discrimination. This spring, the American Economic Association made her a distinguished fellow, their first ever posthumous award. We’ve decided to update this episode we first ran in December 2020 looking at her forgotten contributions to the field. Soumaya Keynes hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | Money talks from the economist is sponsored by Invest Puerto Rico. |
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| 0:26.0 | Gamechangers, welcome home. |
| 0:31.0 | Now, in June of 1921, I received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics. |
| 0:36.0 | It was a great occasion because I was the first black woman in the United States to qualify and to receive degree. |
| 0:43.0 | So said, Sadie Tanner Mosel Alexander. |
| 0:47.0 | 100 years ago, on the day she got her PhD in Economics from the University of America, |
| 0:52.0 | that was quite a celebration. |
| 0:55.0 | And I can well remember marching down Broad Street from Mercantile Hall to the Academy of Music, |
| 1:00.0 | when there were photographers from all over the world taking my picture. |
| 1:05.0 | But today, most economists don't know much about Alexander. |
| 1:10.0 | And I can well remember marching down Broad Street from Mercantile Hall to the Academy of Music |
| 1:16.0 | taking my picture. |
| 1:18.0 | But today, most economists don't know much about Alexander, |
| 1:22.0 | which is partly because of what happened next. |
| 1:26.0 | All of the glory of that occasion faded however quickly when I tried to get a position. |
| 1:34.0 | Sadie Alexander couldn't get a job in academic economics. |
| 1:38.0 | In fact, it would be years until black women got their first teaching positions at American universities. |
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