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Scenario

When academic couples disagree on the role of economics in reparations policy

My spouse and I are both economists and we've been asked to co-author a paper on reparations policy but we fundamentally disagree on whether economic models can adequately capture the moral dimensions of historical harm and whether our professional analysis risks reducing justice to technical problems. The intellectual disagreement is creating tension in our marriage because it reflects different views about the limits of our expertise.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are grappling with whether professional expertise enhances or diminishes moral reasoning about justice.

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Zera
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical and economic case?”

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