Walter Williams

Walter Williams

In Memoriam — Our dear colleague passed away in December 2020. He will be deeply missed.

Dr. Walter E. Williams held M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from UCLA and was an Eminent Scholar at George Mason University’s Department of Economics. He was the author of over 150 publications that have appeared in scholarly journals and popular publications such as Newsweek, National Review, Reader’s Digest, and Policy Review. He had also substituted as host for the “Rush Limbaugh” show. Dr. Williams wrote a nationally syndicated weekly column and authored ten books, most recently Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?