Friday, June 12, 2020
To: The Coeditors of the Journal of Political Economy and Director of The University of Chicago Press
We, the undersigned, call for the resignation of Harald Uhlig, the Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, as the Lead Editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Prof. Uhlig's comments published on his blog (https://bit.ly/3cN0L97) and Twitter posts dated June 8th, trivializing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and drawing parallels between the BLM movement and the Ku Klux Klan, are outrageous and unacceptable. They hurt and marginalize people of color and their allies in the economics profession; call into question his impartiality in assessing academic work on this and related topics; and damage the standing of the economics discipline in society. We do not question the right of Prof. Uhlig to make such comments, but we are strongly opposed to him holding a position of power as the editor of a
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Dean Yang, University of Michigan
Azim Essaji, Wilfrid Laurier University
Tom Vogl, University of California San Diego
Zachary Ward, Baylor University
Ron Baiman, Benedictine University
Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College
Claudio Ferraz, UBC Vancouver
Jacob Dorn, Princeton University
Jonah Coste, George Washington University
Teevrat Garg, UCSD
Eric Osborne, Pace University
Tomos Robinson, Newcastle University
Abigail Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Filipe Campante, Johns Hopkins University
Manuel Barron, Universidad del Pacifico
Moizza Sarwar, Overseas Development Institute
Peter Matthews
Jeremy Foltz, University of Wisconsin Madison
Joyce Chen, The Ohio State University
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale
John Hamman, Florida State University
Beia Spiller, EDF
Esther Shears, UC Berkeley
Fabio Ghironi, University of Washington
Andy Atkeson, UCLA
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, NYU Stern
Alan de Brauw, International Food Policy Research Institute
1 The list of 500 signatories is presented in random order. Signatures were initially collected via a google form and then verified by email. This list only presents signatures of individuals who have confirmed their participation via an email to Maximilian Auffhammer.
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Arthur Silve, Université Laval
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Sutton Robert, Stanford University
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Duke University
Neil Christy, University of Michigan
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Gianluca Violante, Princeton University
Daniele Paserman, Boston University
Assistant Professor - Anonymous, University of Chicago
Eeshani Kandpal, World Bank
Michael Moore, University of Michigan
Eva Lyubich, UC Berkeley
Cassandra Benson, United States Air Force Academy
Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University
Zachary Taylor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Chris Heitzig, Brookings
Julian Langer, University of Zurich
Andrés Moya, Universidad de los Andes, Department of Economics Ivan Werning, MIT
Severin Borenstein, UC Berkeley
Ross Mattheis, Harvard University
Abigail Hornstein , Wesleyan University
Dan Howdon, University of Leeds
Valon Hasanaj, University of Bern
Pre-doc Fellow - Anonymous, University of Chicago
Robert Huckman, Harvard Business School
Jean-Laurent Cadorel, Paris School of Economics
Conner Mullally, University of Florida
Neil Bennett, University of California, Irvine
Sumit Mishra, Krea University
Megan Lang, UC Berkeley
Santiago Saavedra, Universidad del Rosario
Geoff Clarke, Brandeis
Cristobal Otero, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Guillaume Blanc, Brown University
Erdal Tekin, American University
Katrina Mullan, University of Montana
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Daniel Björkegren, Brown University
Jeffrey Bloem, Federal Government
Andreas Diemer, London School of Economics and Political Science Jo Mitchell, UWE Bristol
Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, University of Alicante
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Gloria Helfand, University of Michigan
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Bilal Zia, World Bank

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Andres Rodriguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley
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Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago
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Eirik Romstad, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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Jacob Short
Jonathan Libgober, University of Southern California
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Chiara Ravetti, Politecnico di Torino
James Taylor, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Becker Anke, Harvard University
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Matthew Gordon, Yale
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Michael Powell, Northwestern
Hilary Hoynes , UC Berkeley
Sandile Hlatshwayo, AEA Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Economics Profession
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Beatrice Cherrier, CNRS
Macy Rainer, Urban Institute
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John Whitehead, Appalachian State University
Shaheryar ., LUMS - Department of Economics
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Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University
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Alex Doser, Northwestern University
Natasha Altema , UTRGV
Kristin Kleinjans, California State University Fullerton
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Jonathan Isham, Middlebury College Department of Economics
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Jorge Soares, University of Delaware
Bruce Pietrykowski , University of Michigan-Dearborn
Berk Ozler, The World Bank
Chiara Felli, LUISS University
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Richard Tol, University of Sussex
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Valentina Duque, The University of Sydney
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Jordi Honey-Roses, University of British Columbia
Pete Klenow, Stanford University
Geoff Mann, Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University Anonymous Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Matt Krupoff, Yale
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Astrid Hopfensitz, Toulouse School of Economics Steven Yee, UCSD
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Jacob Golden , Stanford University
Daniel Higa, Simon Fraser University
Viet Vu, Brookfield Institute - Ryerson University Simon Galle, Norwegian Business School
Luis Jacome, Georgetown University
Antonio Bento, USC
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Richard Prisinzano, Penn Wharton Budget Model Chris Becker , Stanford University
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Gunseli Berik, University of Utah
Andreas de Barros, MIT, Department of Economics
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Stefania Albanesi, University of Pittsburgh
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Research Professional - Anonymous, University of Chicago
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