Topic: Discussion on The Business of Stealing Futures: Race, Gender, and the Student Debt Regime 
Venue: CDPP Private Limited Masab Tank, Hyderabad
Date: August 13, 2024 
Time: 12 pm (IST)

Prof. Mir Ali Husain will be discussing his paper on (The Business of Stealing Futures: Race, Gender, and the Student Debt Regime) In this paper, he argues that the system of student debt functions as one of the most egregious and yet poorly understood mechanisms by which structural racism is reproduced in the U.S. today. The paper presents evidence that student debt is unevenly distributed across race and gender, show that this pattern arises from policy choices made over time, and demonstrate that these disparities play a significant role in maintaining and exacerbating racial and gender wealth gaps. The paper contends that the student debt crisis not only erodes the core principles of higher education but also perpetuates a cycle of racial and gender inequality and given the crucial role played by business corporations, urges scholars of business ethics to pay attention to this issue.