Gregory N. Price is the JP Morgan Chase Professor, Minority and Emerging Business II, in the Department of Economics and Finance, University of New Orleans. His previous appointments include Charles E. Merrill Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, Morehouse College, Director of the Mississippi Urban Research Center, Professor of Economics, Jackson State University, and Economics Program Director, National Science Foundation. He is currently the editor of the Review of Black Political Economy and the past President of the National Economic Association. An applied econometrician and theorist, his current research efforts are in economic stratification, African economic development, and the causes and consequences of Entrepreneurship/Slavery.