Is Now a Teachable Moment for Economists? An Open Letter from Bill Spriggs in the Wake of George Floyd’s Death

Our own Professor Spriggs just published this open letter to economists.
" I hope we economists will focus on how we achieve systemic change...We will not chase endlessly for the right instrument to identify some narrow policy goal that on the margin might lift wages by 2 percent, all else equal, but again ask the big questions about understanding the institutions that created our massive inequality."