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Nina Banks is an American economist who is an associate professor of economics at
Bucknell University Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. ...
and former president of the
National Economic Association The National Economic Association (NEA) is a learned society established in 1969, focused on initiatives in the field of economics. The purposes of the Association are "to promote the professional lives of minorities within the profession. In a ...
. She is known for her research on the contributions of early women economists, particularly
Sadie Alexander Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (January 2, 1898 – November 1, 1989), was a pioneering Black professional and civil rights activist of the early-to-mid-20th century. In 1921, Mossell Alexander was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in ...
. She has also published work explaining the economic value of Black women's community activism.


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.


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African-American economists Hood College alumni American women economists Living people University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the National Economic Association 21st-century African-American scientists 21st-century African-American women 21st-century American economists 21st-century American women scientists African-American women scientists {{US-economist-stub