Edward F. Lawlor, William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor and dean emeritus of the Brown School
Clearly, the benefits of science-based economic development have not been shared by race, class or geography in our region.
African Americans and Latinos still face enormous structural discrimination and disadvantages. The region’s east-west axis of economic activity does not include the north-south axis of population and need.
We continue to be very segregated, provincial, and backward-looking in our human and social capital strategy. As a region we continue to wring our hands, feel comfortable with who we are, yet avoid tackling the hard and controversial work of building a vital and inclusive modern regional economy.
Read the full piece in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.