Nina Banks

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Nina Banks
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Hood College, B.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst, PhD., Economics (1999)

Nina Banks is an American economist who is an associate professor of economics at Bucknell University ^[1] and former president of the National Economic Association. ^[2] She is known for her research on the contributions of early women economists, particularly Sadie Alexander. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} She is one of the founders of the Freedom and Justice conference of NEA and ASHE. ^[7] She has also published work explaining the economic value of Black women's community activism. ^[8]

Selected works

• Banks, Nina. "Democracy, Race, And Justice: The Speeches And Writing Of Sadie T. M. Alexander." Yale University Press, 2021
• Banks, Nina, Geoffrey Schneider, and Paul Susman. "Paying the bills is not just theory: service learning about a living wage." Review of Radical Political Economics 37, no. 3 (2005): 346–356.
• Banks, Nina. "Uplifting The Race Through Domesticity: Capitalism, African-American Migration, And The Household Economy In The Great Migration Era Of 1916—1930." Feminist Economics 12, no. 4 (2006): 599–624.
• Banks, Nina. "Black women and racial advancement: The economics of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander." The Review of Black Political Economy 33, no. 1 (2005): 9-24.
• Banks, Nina. "The Black worker, economic justice and the speeches of Sadie TM Alexander." Review of Social Economy 66, no. 2 (2008): 139–161.

References

1. "Nina Banks". Economic Policy Institute. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
2. "NEA Officers and Executive Board | National Economic Association". www.neaecon.org. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
3. "Nina Banks, Economics". www.bucknell.edu. July 17, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
4. "Economists are rediscovering a lost heroine". The Economist. December 19, 2020. ISSN   0013-0613 . Retrieved February 4, 2021.
5. "Unsung Economists #1: Sadie Alexander". National Public Radio . February 22, 2019.
6. "The Lost Archives of Sadie Alexander : Planet Money". NPR.org. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
7. "Nina Banks". National Economic Association. Retrieved September 18, 2025.
8. Nelson, Eshe (February 5, 2021). "The Economist Placing Value on Black Women's Overlooked Work". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved February 5, 2021.

External links

• Nina Banks On the C-SPAN Networks