Nina Banks is an American economist who is an associate professor of economics at Bucknell University^[1] and former president of the National Economic Association.^[2] She is known for her research on the contributions of early women economists, particularly Sadie Alexander.^[3][4][5][6] She has also published work explaining the economic value of Black women's community activism.^[7]

Selected works

• Banks, Nina. "Democracy, Race, And Justice: The Speeches And Writing Of Sadie T. M. Alexander." Yale University Press, 2021
• Banks, Nina, Geoffrey Schneider, and Paul Susman. "Paying the bills is not just theory: service learning about a living wage." Review of Radical Political Economics 37, no. 3 (2005): 346–356.
• Banks, Nina. "Uplifting The Race Through Domesticity: Capitalism, African-American Migration, And The Household Economy In The Great Migration Era Of 1916—1930." Feminist Economics 12, no. 4 (2006): 599–624.
• Banks, Nina. "Black women and racial advancement: The economics of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander." The Review of Black Political Economy 33, no. 1 (2005): 9-24.
• Banks, Nina. "The Black worker, economic justice and the speeches of Sadie TM Alexander." Review of Social Economy 66, no. 2 (2008): 139–161.