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Nov 17

Gary Hoover lecture and book signing

Is our economy a ladder, or a lottery? Are people able to control their position on the economic spectrum by their actions? Certain scholars have argued that with the creation of our market-based economy, no matter what economic position you are born into, if you play by certain social rules and do certain things, you should see upward mobility.

Drawing on his vast economic expertise, Dr. Gary Hoover will discuss concepts from his book, exploring what the “social contract” requires of its citizens, and what is promised in return.

Derthick Hall, Room 101
624 Vine Street, Chattanooga, TN 37403
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Tuesday, November 17, 2026
04:15pm - 05:30pm

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More about Gary Hoover

Gary Hoover is the Executive Director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. He is also a professor of economics and is an affiliate professor of law.

 

From 2015 until 2020 he was a President’s Associates Presidential Professor and the Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Oklahoma.

 

Dr. Hoover received his PhD in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. Since then, he has published numerous scholarly research papers, book chapters, books on topics concerning income redistribution/poverty, political economy, and ethics in the economics profession. He is the author of the book Ladder or Lottery: Economic Promises and the Reality of Who Gets Ahead. Dr. Hoover was the co-chair of the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession from 2011 to 2024. From 2022 to 2023 he was the president of the Southern Economic Association. He is on the advisory board of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. In addition, since 2023 he has been on the board of the National Tax Association.

 

Dr. Hoover is the founding and current editor of the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Hoover is a network member at the Center for Economic Studies & ifo Institute in Munich, Germany. He has also been a guest professor at the Universities of Hannover and Konstanz in Germany, the University of Vienna in Austria and X’ian University in China.