A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws
回顾美国种族法律的历史，以首位非裔经济学博士亚历山大为例，说明种族排斥如何阻碍经济学界产生关于美国经济运作的有用知识。
This article reviews the history of race laws in the United States as distinct from the rule of law, an idea found in the writing and speeches of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first African American PhD in economics (1921). We review the race laws of slavery, lynching, Negro Jobs, and the making of the Black ghetto. We highlight the life and writings of Alexander and other early African American economists as an example of the cost of racial exclusion in the economics profession and how it has impeded the production of useful knowledge about the workings of the US economy.