On August 22, as part of the Chicago Centered series, the Harris School of Public Policy hosted a discussion about Inequality and Development and the ways it impacts the city of Chicago and beyond.
Panelists included Kathleen St. Louis Caliento, CLA'17, President and CEO of Cara Collective; Steven Durlauf, Steans Professor in Educational Policy and the Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility; and Mark Hussey, President and CEO of Huron Consulting Group. The panel was moderated by Natalie Moore, reporter for WBEZ, contributor for the Chicago Sun-Times, and a former Senior Practitioner Fellow with the Center for Effective Government.
Moore kicked off the panel by asking Professor Durlauf about his new role as director of the Stone Center. “One of the objectives of The Stone Center is finding ways to measure discrimination,” said Durlauf.
“Social science needs to have a much less individualistic perspective and take into account that individuals are members of families, members of the community, members of school, members of an ethnic group—we need to focus on these memberships as the determinants of inequality,” he continued.
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