Future postsecondary faculty, researchers, scholars, and administrators are not insulated from hunger, debt, financial anxiety, nor the need for a secure place to sleep. Coupled with the unpredictable post-graduate labor market, it is urgent we attend to the challenges and risks doctoral students take. This is especially important given what we know about the oppressive structural and cultural hurdles faced by doctoral students from all backgrounds (Posselt, 2018) and Black and Latinx doctoral students in particular (Gildersleeve, Croom, & Vasquez, 2011), often in distinct ways by gender (Ingram, 2013; Winkle-Wagner, Johnson, Morelon-Quainoo, & Santiague, 2010).
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We all know that today’s economic inequality is bad—we can feel it—but we don’t have a clear way to articulate why this is, unless we appeal to morality. The field of economics doesn’t offer a compelling narrative, which is a major shortcoming. Don’t get me wrong, there are many brilliant economists out there doing important work and publishing insightful individual studies. But the overarching paradigms of the field of economics can’t pull together the results of these individual works in a way that convincingly condemns massive and persistent economic inequality.
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