FT Weekend Interview – Roland Fryer
“Understanding what
is really going on led last year to Fryer, 38, winning the John Bates Clark
medal, an annual award for an American economist under 40 and arguably the
second most prestigious economics gong after the Nobel Prize. His empirical
work has eviscerated stodgy thinking about race, education and inequality.
Through his Education Innovation Lab, founded in 2008, Fryer is attempting to
reshape how America thinks about public policy, statistic by statistic.”