I had the opportunity to talk to Germinal G. Van about his book The Economic Condition of Black America in the Twentieth Century: A Historical and Empirical Analysis. Van is an economist and scholar who was born and raised in West Africa’s Ivory Coast and immigrated to the United States in 2010. He’s written for the Foundation for Economic Education and the Mises Institute.
His book highlights the economic ups and downs of black Americans in the last century and the contributing factors to those ups and downs. We talked about these factors as well as reasons why black immigrants might tend to have both more diversity of political opinion and more economic success than native born black Americans. We also sought to answer the question of how we can build a society which is more just and removes unfair impediments to economic advancement.
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Audio:
http://www.cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20201006-germinalvan.mp3
Music:
F E E F I F O by Failed Kingdoms. Available here: https://soundcloud.com/failedk